When one social media burns down it will always translate to more success for others.
At the moment we are watching the whole twitter meltdown as people lose their shit over Elon buying the site and opening it up to free speech and all users.
It looks like mastodon is going to be one of the big winners from the changeover as they are seeing a raft of new users signing up and have become a recognizable name on twitter itself.
For anyone wondering, Mastodon got over 70K sign-ups yesterday alone. Let's keep the momentum going! The "public square" of the web must not belong to any one person or corporation!
Now I know nothing about the site other than it appears to be a heavily moderated site operating under the pretense of decentralization.
Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software.
So it is owned by a corporation. Just one that's not making money form it.
Surely Hive would be a better substitute for twitter other than some sort of hard to use, underdeveloped, underperforming website that is owned by a single entity.
****Honestly. Hive is hard to use, underdeveloped, underperforming and even worse heavily moderated by a few users with large stake.
We're not ready for a few hundred thousand users. Our two best alternatives to twitter are d.buzz and leo threads neither of which is a match for the site yet. They are both a long way from the finished product and ready to take these numbers.
From what i can tell of the reaction on twitter it would seem that Mastadon isn't either.
It's just the latest flavor of the month without lasting power that will really threaten any of the established users. This is going to be it's big moment in the sun and if the team and the site isn't ready for it then they will miss this shot and fade away with all of the other twitter killers that have come and gone to date.
All of this fuss about the takeover will die off over the next year and people will creep back to twitter to check their feeds and see what their people are up to. 99% of people don't really care about privacy, decentralization or principles over ease of use and connectivity.
Even with this latest outrage over Elon it's the people shouting loudest about giving people their own freedom of speech that actually want more censorship. They are hardly going to move onto sites with less censorship where anything goes. I can't see them coming over to our dark side anytime fast.
It's always the ones that shout the loudest that are the first to turn over.
When it's time for one of the hive apps to hit those headlines I would prefer that they are ready and able to hold onto this flood of new users and open up more hive apps to the lucky people that have just discovered a whole new eco-system with dozens of easy to use, fun, polished apps that hold their attention and make them want to stay in the hive eco-system long term.
