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Comment by DeathArrow | Hacker News Reader

The amount of users who care about Mastodon is negligible when compared with the amount of Twitter users. People have already voted and Mastodon got the thumbs down.

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I doubt that the vast majority of Twitter users made an active decision of giving Mastodon the thumb down. They just didn't hear of it, or had no impetus to find a different option. I think that's an important distinction.

The format of the fediverse is anti-virality and anti-discovery. It's also anti-index. It's a joke that anyone thinks it could ever compete with Twitter. It's not for a lack of interest or advertising.

> It's also anti-index.

That's maybe the sentiment of the users, but the implementation details allow indexing of public content very easily.

Anyway, the purpose - at least in my eyes - is not to compete with twitter as a whole, but to offer alternatives to people that desire it. And to this end, I think Mastodon, and I hope the rest of the fediverse proved quite successful.

The amount of people who eat wonderful, nutritous food is negligible when compared with the amount of McDonalds diners. But people have already voted and McDonalds got the thumbs up.

As someone who almost entirely moved over, I’d say you are right on average and wrong in practice - most of the tech people I follow are more active on Mastodon, and right now there is only a handful of people I actively go back to Twitter to read.

Nobody is going to use TikTok, everybody can just use Instagram and YouTube - Lots of people 5 years ago.

The market isn't an election with a fixed end date. Twitter didn't even exist 20 years ago, it's not going to last forever.

The amount of users who care about Hackernews is negligible when compared with the amount of Reddit users. People have already voted and Hackernews got the thumbs down.

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