I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.
@jerry it probably is computationally expensive when people nuke every reddit/Twitter post they've made for a decade before quitting one of those platforms
@jerry it’s called reverse engineering. Fewer users need more resources. That’s why Twitter is cutting their resources, due to the fantastic growth numbers.
@jerry The financial analysts have figured out that Mastodon instances can't be run on the DotCom model, and that the network effects only tie people to protocol compatible instances.
So to them mastodon will always be failing, even once it gets bigger than FB.
Just posted a thread about my new paper and had more engagement here before I finished posting the thread than I got on Twitter (where I have more followers).
@solicitor@gamingonlinux@jerry@mdiluz It was more of a joke on the fact that people seem to repeat the trope that Mastodon isn’t working, when it clearly is growing a lot, and that Twitter, on the other side, is full of bots 😅
@jerry as a tumblr resident, welcome to the dead social media club where you can post all you like and news sources won't link you in their articles without your consent but they'll absolutely talk about you like you're not in the room
In order to bury your inactive account on #Mastodon, you now need to rent a grave on #2ndLife / #SL.
The only coffins available sobfar are Egyptian sarcophagi in high resolution.
This is why you are having to add capacity. /s
@jerry it’s because you don’t have rate limiting on the batch RPC requests coming from the front-end, the tertiary inertial manifolds can’t handle the resulting 4° phase shift polarity modulation from the inverted supermatrix caused by rapidly fluctuating quantum magnetic fields.
Scotty can have it fixed in 5 minutes if you push him, even if he says he needs 30.
@jerry It surprises me how some people still post tweets even if these tweets will not reach outside the platform at the moment. I like mastodon. It is my only social media where I can interact without feeling overwhelmed and even though I get annoyed with posts of American-centric politics it does not worsen my experience. I guess dismissing the ones left behind is easy but I can imagine that it is hard to let go of what you have built or of what is familiar.
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