I really want Mastodon to be the next big thing, but it frankly has a culture problem that is going to kill its broader adoption. After quite a long time here, and a few days at Bluesky, the comparative experience looks like this:
Bluesky: "Everyone's posting about the latest weird inside joke, and I'm excited to post my weird twist on it!"
Mastodon: "Jokes offend me because I was born without a sense of humor. I demand that you wrap all levity in a content warning or I will FediBlock you."
@arossp Maybe this time it's true, but for DECADES appeals to stop jokes at others' expense - racist, sexist, homophobic, fat-phobic, insensitive to the disabled, transphobic - have been met with wails of "you have no sense of humor! you're killing comedy!" And yet comedy thrives.
FWIW, I've been here pretty much daily since Nov and I haven't experienced any of these humorless people.
Mastodon probably won't be the Next Big Thing, but I think it will eventually be The Thing.