Comment by treyd
13 hours ago
At least for Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse ecosystem it does seem that people actually want to use them, and more people every day.
13 hours ago
At least for Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse ecosystem it does seem that people actually want to use them, and more people every day.
People moved on from Mastodon to Bluesky because it was more responsive to user needs. I encouraged people to move to Mastodon but then watched them move on.
It is what it is - but it's worth being clear-eyed about what it is.
FOSS just does not have the aggressive scaling mindset. Even success stories like Linux' game compatibility and Chromium can be traced to just regular tech companies, as opposed to non profits.
It has actually improved a lot since then. The UI has had changes, search is better, it has quote posts now. More usability enhancements are under active development.
Once "normies" have tried and moved away, I think it's too late. Unfortunately such services don't get a second chance.
It was probably hard enough to convince them to try once.
> search is better
Search is still awful, in part because a few people don't seem to want it. It needs substantial improvement.