It’s so funny to me watching everyone debate about what is or isn’t going to be the next ultimate single massive platform.

I, and many Fediverse people, are on the Fedi explicitly hoping it isn’t in that list. Mastodon is a success to me because of the thousands of people on it and that I interact with, and that it is precisely not containing the masses.

So many people think we need another Reddit and Twitter. Many of us however are looking for exactly something not Reddit or Twitter.

Mastodon and Lemmy/etc are a smash success to me. They have more traffic, users and activity than the other comparable options combined (citation needed). And most importantly, they did it without becoming the next big thing.

Plus if, god forbid, it does become the next big thing - It can still isolate and be a small forum. That alone is lovely to me.