It's weird - there was a lot of support on HN for Mastodon before Elon Musk took over Twitter, albeit in the midst of a lot of criticism, mostly about UX. Now that the narrative of people fleeing Twitter because of Elon seems to dominate discussion, it seems like everyone wants to double down on hating it or dismissing it. Even with evidence that Mastodon's UX problems aren't insurmountable, everyone still wants to call code on Mastodon and declare it dead.

You'd think more people would be happy that the FAANG hegemony is being broken, at least a little, but I guess not.