TBH, I don't think it's a very good sign of Mastodon's health as a home for TTRPG talk that unfollowing everyone who's been inactive for more than 13 months left me following only 95 accounts—many of which belong to journalists, academics or artists, not TTRPG people.

@KeithAmmann @sage

His LinkedIn says he started a new job last month. That might be contributory.

@KeithAmmann i've seen a few instance operators who now only treat the fediverse as a billboard.

They've given up on it being social media, by not participating socially.

It's sad.

@KeithAmmann @sage I don’t think that’s right. I know I’ve seen some posts by him edit (5 months, he said 5 months, not years). Last that I saw that dice.camp was costing him several hundred dollars per month to maintain. I’m tagging both Sage and Tim Eagon. Well, Tim is becoming an increasingly rare spawn. I know that he used to follow mastodon statistics quite closely.
@Tim_Eagon @sage

@KeithAmmann I've also noticed very little interesting #ttrpg content recently, and fewer reactions on what I've posted. I've mostly been posting about my own games recently to be fair, which is going to have limited interest to others, but I used to get a couple of likes at least

@Da_Gut @KeithAmmann @sage I'm here, just life is keeping me busy during my former prime posting hours. I don't want to speak for Sage, who has taken breaks from posting in the past, but the MAU of dice.camp has stayed pretty stable recently, and in fact, has increased a bit since I last looked. Also, someone is approving new accounts and paying the bills, so he's not totally absent.

@trantion @KeithAmmann I am not helping because I do not post a lot about RPGs, even though I joined Mastodon with the intention of primarily engaging in that topic. Not really sure why, and perhaps it is a self-fulfilling prophecy on my end, but I indeed pretty rarely see RPG discussions happen here.

Before I deleted Facebook I had a lot of interesting discussions take place in only a handful of game-specific groups I had joined. Nothing like that ever took root here.

@KeithAmmann I've been singing that lament for some time. I joined Mastodon to talk about TTRPGs; it became my primary (sole) social media only when I got booted from Zuckerville. I had to crawl back to Big Purple for actual TTRPG discussion, as it seems only to be an afterthought here. Given the steps I had to take to clear up my feed (including blocking the term "kickstarter"), it seems people primarily use it as an advertising billboard. It's frustrating and disappointing.

@KeithAmmann @sage Months, not years. I misread that to begin with.

@KeithAmmann
The server has seemed fine, but it has stuck out that the occasional progress reports from @sage have stopped. @starhawk 's explanation is reassuring, though.

It is sometimes frustrating that the TTRPG talk these days seems to mostly revolve around D&D, whatever's trying to directly compete with D&D, and self-promo, though. (Less so when it's people thinking aloud about their designs in progress, though!)

Also, yes, Discord's expanding conquest of the Net is VERY aggravating.