I honestly think it sure will. People will probably go in 3 directions:

  • Mastodon
  • Wait for Bluesky
  • Wait for Instagram “Threads”

Honestly, if people go fediverse way, they definitely should choose something like Misskey/Calckey. They’re much better options than mastodon IMO

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    The problem with Mastodon is that they don’t have very many major entities actively making posts. The main thing I track on twitter is OSINT and US politics, and that community basically doesn’t exist on Mastodon right now

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      That explains why it feels so empty, I can’t find any actual content on Mastodon despite how huge it supposedly is compared to Kbin and Lemmy

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        It takes a while to get it going. I go to the full federation feed and follow different users that I discover there, and also sometimes people that they follow… And I also follow some big news sources like Reuters. Eventually my followed feed has built up - it’s almost too many posts.

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      What you call a problem I call a relief. I’m tired of the cult of celebrity that corporate social media foists.

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          To each their own.

          Indeed. That’s one of the gratifying things about the deaths of all the billionaire-owned sites. It’s giving room to breathe for those of us who don’t want their vision of a future of humanity on their knees before them servicing them.

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      I follow some major news sources on Mastodon (Reuters, NYT, WaPo, Guardian, and more). Im in NYC so I also follow transit alerts, one of the main reasons I had previously used Twitter.