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Why is Mastodon struggling to survive? (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.

Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The first rule of Mastodon is "filter the term 'Mastodon'".

While you're at it, filter out mentions of any other social media you can think of. All of that metadiscourse is apparently important for people to get off their chests, buy it's numbing to read.

I'm fairly happy using Mastodon, but the lack of algorithms made it necessary to curate my feed very strictly. I turned off boosts/reposts in my app, too, and I now have a slow-moving, low-drama newsfeed that doesn't stress me out just opening it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I do all that then my feed is going to be even emptier than it is now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's how filters work, yes. Follow a few hashtags of interest to find people who post about stuff you care about, it'll fill back in.