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Mastodon is a wasteland. It can't compete with the engagement and exposure you can get on Twitter. For a social network, any feature parity is irrelevant if it can't reach critical mass.

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for you. Works fine for me and millions others.

> Works fine for me and millions others.

There are fewer than 1.5 million monthly active users on Mastodon according to their stats.

And this somehow means to you that it doesn't work for them? That's not a correct interpretation.

No. I'm saying the claim of "millions" might not be correct.

It might or might not, other counters show 11 million accounts, who knows how many active. Which metrics do each counter use and why do we believe they're representative of what we care about?

With 1/100th the users, many Mastodon users report much more and valuable engagement on Mastodon than Twitter.

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