Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

[ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza]

@rysiek I wasn't aware there was a specific day to celebrate.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@alberto_cottica

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@rysiek

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@dhinojosa the term "toot" is only dirty for a tiny minority of users of the English language. So, ‍️

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@rysiek @chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.

Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).

It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@dec23k why unfashionable? I never used it, but that doesn't mean it was bad. That was years before all the really toxic social media stuff started happening. No shade if you liked it.

The point I was making is that this here tiny little fedi has way more staying power than a social network with over a hundred million users at the time, pushed hard by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

That, to me, is the superpower of decentralized services.

@chrisp

[dnparadice@mastodon.social]

@rysiek it was fortold that the troglodyte Lance Ulanoff would emerge from his rock and proclaim that mastodon was not his friend then go back under his rock while shaking his fist at the clouds in the sky. And so it was

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@rysiek I remember well using it in it's beginnings. But I gave up because I could only find tech nerds at that time instead of Gene Roddenberry. When I came back years later, the audience fortunately had widened.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@rysiek that scrub, what a fuckwit. I am glad that saying toots literally hurt him. may he keep saying it. on twitter. where he belongs.

[wordsmith@writing.exchange]

@rysiek it sure has failed as an experiment!

Sent from my iPhone

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@dec23k @rysiek @chrisp
The funny thing about Google+ was that it was shut down in order to cover up a rather nasty security breach.

I only know this because @hipsterelectron mentioned it

[ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org]

@dhinojosa

If you can post verse, you can post prose. So maybe Fediverse posts should be called "Prosts" instead of toots or verses?

Nah, "verses" is better.

@rysiek

[mdstevens0612@mas.to]

@rysiek Glad he took being wrong in good spirits but man, this article is super obnoxious. And NGL, I will never lose sleep over William Shatner not being able to find me on mastodon. Now if it were maybe Chris Pine...

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@cibersheep @rysiek @revengeday tha old ways are often the best

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@dhinojosa you may say post and share and John Mastodon won't kill you. @rysiek

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@CoolerPseudonym nope!

you appear to have depression. bye!

[mcm_63@mastodon.uno]

@rysiek

„Unless someone buys the code off Rochko today and consolidates this mess ASAP, it can't survive.“

[eeveecraft@dragonscave.space]

@rysiek

Welp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.

Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.

#Mastodon #Twitter #FediMeta

[kichae@wanderingadventure.party]

Cass Well, the breech probably happened because Google dropped all investment in it. So, it's all sort of the same thing, I'm sure.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@Eeveecraft counterpoint: https://pluralistic.net/tag/scalloped-growth/