Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

  • prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Because most people don’t exactly want a community-led social platform that respects you and empowers user freedom, even if some say they do.

    Get off your high horse. I work for a software company, regularly participate in beta testing and am very tech literate. Mastodon was agitating to use when I signed up and not intuitive. The community I signed up in also deleted my account during a “whoopsie”. A terrible experience drove me off with no desire to go back for such a tiny and relatively stagnate user base on an unstable platform. If that was my experience, the average person will absolutely not like Mastodon.

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      2 hours ago

      Your complaint is about an unknown instance admin committing a maintenance mistake. Will bluesky’s promised federation protect against that? You could join an instance managed by a well funded public entity if you want something that gets close to VC-funding. (which aren’t that reliable either. Look how many of these start-up platforms go away)