I think these opinions are worth considering, but they assume that those of us who have been on the fediverse for a long time want Mastodon to be a one-to-one Twitter alternative. Not all of us do, and we like the fact that it can be weird and that it’s nitche.
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money […]