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Why does it need to compete with tech giants for people to be enthusiastic about it? Having an organic community is good for longevity if not massive short term adoption.

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The feeling I get from comments on hacker news and such, is that mastodon is a replacement for twitter that _everyone_ should switch to. So you're competing with twitter and any other replacement like threads.

Not GP, but the utility of a social app is linked to network effects - i.e. the more people who use it, the more utility it provides. Otherwise you're risking tooting to the wind.

There are diminishing returns at a certain point though, the crowd gets so large that utility stops increasing.

I want to interact with experts in subjects I'm interested in, the occasional media figure, and some brands. Sadly brands are lacking, but I get enough of the rest on Mastodon to keep me happy.

It's a shame Patrick Rothfuss isn't on Mastodon, but John Scalzi is, so that's cool.

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