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It is not good news that Mastodon usage has dropped after the initial surge. But it's understandable. Patience and persistence are needed, along with greater (it's coming) ease of use here.
Meanwhile, it's disgusting that journalists -- whom Musk attacked directly and is still in some cases banning from his increasingly right-wing propaganda machine -- have meekly gone back to Twitter.
In a way, it's not surprising. Which says a lot about Big Journalism in our era.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/
@rysiek@mstdn.social> It is not good news that Mastodon usage has dropped after the initial surge.
1. It has dropped, but it's still an order of magnitude higher than before Nov. Went from ~500k to 2.5m and holding at that level or higher for almost 3mo.
https://the-federation.info/
("Active last month")
2. it's not a bad thing that it has dropped. Gives us time to deal with cultural changes that are happening, implement software changes that are asked for (QTs for example), and build out infrastructure.
3. Wired is making the mistake everyone and their dog are making about measuring fedi's success: that is, measuring it by a Silicon Valley startup metrics.
Fedi is not a SV startup, and success is measured differently. It's not about the hockey stick, it's about the long-term. It's about all the ex-Twitter 3rd party app developers now building amazing fedi apps. It's about all the amazing Twitter bot developers making their bots publish to fedi instead.
@dangillmor and most importantly, it's about communities built here, slowly, thoughtfully, with purpose.
This takes time, but since fedi has no VC investors breathing down anyone's neck, fedi has that time.
The spike in April 2022, tiny in comparison to November, prepared fedi for November. November spike helps fedi prepare for the next one.
Growth is not the metric to measure fedi's success by. The sooner Wired and other media outlets understand this, the better they can serve their readers.
@rysiek Thoughtful points...