Mastodon evokes feelings of "year of Linux desktop" in me. Yes, Linux is a great desktop but no, I don't think people are ready to just up and move.
Mastodon is probably great, but I don't think people are ready to move there.
Mastodon is probably great, but I don't think people are ready to move there.
I don't think it will be for everybody... The federated discoverability is going to be a turnoff for a lot of individuals. But it's well cleared the bar of of "this will be constant pain if you sign up."
But you're wrong about people being ready to move there. It's added 230k users in the last week, and in the last 24 hours in particular growth has started to look a bit exponential with just under 70k users being added, ~3000ish an hour. Despite the biggest server (mastodon.social) being overwhelmed and not being able to take new users.
Growth right now is about as rapid as possible.