“We have a thing that is arcane and hasn’t taken off with the public so don’t make a new one” isn’t exactly a stellar argument.
The only winning move is to onboard users and given hundreds of millions of people may be looking to leave Twitter, Mastodon utterly shit the bed and missed the moment.
That’s the end of the story: if the system can’t catch users raining down from the sky during a generational upheaval in social media it ain’t never gonna make it.
I wondered if Twitter would try extending its protocol so it integrated into the Fediverse, and just become the best Mastodon server ever that everyone ended up congregating on.
The only winning move is to onboard users and given hundreds of millions of people may be looking to leave Twitter, Mastodon utterly shit the bed and missed the moment.
That’s the end of the story: if the system can’t catch users raining down from the sky during a generational upheaval in social media it ain’t never gonna make it.