Today more time has passed since the Mastodon Won't Survive piece got published than there is left until the AI bubble pops.

Feeling old yet?

@rysiek reading this article gave me a brain aneurysm

@rysiek best in this article is the missing tweet from twitter.com

@rysiek
John Mastodon brought me a rumpled paper bag full of chocolate-style ovoids! He also ate all the leftovers in my fridge and rifled through my closets, but you take the good, you take the bad.

@sturmsucht yes, this is truly what brings it up a notch, from great to glorious.

@rysiek
"This is no BlueSky"

Said like it's a bad thing to not be scraping everything for ai, or to be beholden to crypto bros.
@revengeday

@rysiek I was going to say «I would not read it, but I didn't... sorry, I just read the headers XD XD and noooow, I will retut it

@revengeday

@rysiek lol. Didn't have to read beyond "I signed up primarily to protect my name."
Yeah, uhm. Good to be here. Not missing those people.

@rysiek I'm laughing WAY more than I should

@rysiek

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even twitter may died.

#VivaMastodon

@mxchara @rysiek at least we have George Takei

@rysiek the thing is fedi is just not comparable to twitter, no wonder one loses when held to the standards of the other

you go to one social or the other for different reasons, I believe fedi excels at less but better connections and conversations, while twitter is the instant winner when it comes to keeping up to date with higher profile people (non-indie music artists and such) or generally what's hot on the internet at a given time

I am not considering twitter's ideological issues here cause they're a recent problem that's not intrinsic to the platform I feel

@rysiek what if Mastodon didn't survive and this is all limbo?

@rysiek Obviously this looks painfully ridiculous reading it from the year 2026, but even back then he was laying it on a bit too thick, like he wanted it to fail .

We of course know it will live forever...

Mastodon will never die

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@RoyHorace @rysiek far better George Takei than William Shatner in this particular case!

@RoyHorace @mxchara @rysiek

I think its George Takei's social media team rather than him directly, but one thing I've noticed since 2017 is whilst I was initially one of the oldest on my Fedi group, now there are *many* folk on Fedi easily old enough to be my parents (and I'm 54!) and a lot who aren't from tech backgrounds, which shows the network has become accessible and usable for older people..

@shellsharks @rysiek A lot of journalists and influencers assume that most people are like them. They project their own competencies, or lack of them to the wider public.
This is similar to a review who reviews a new computer and the first thing they do is encode 4k video.
They assume that everyone wants to do that.

Also they are often missing the point that open source projects are evolving around a community. The community dictates the direction a project will evolve and not some kind of corporate agenda.

In any case the majority of journalists have decided to ignore mastodon and fediverse in general and quite a few of them did what they could to manipulate their audience away from fediverse.

@rysiek "There is nothing intrinsically wonderful about Mastodon aside from the fact that it's not Twitter." - there is lack of understanding in that statement from the article. Like completely missing the point. But hey ho, we're here on this dead platform after many years

@DJGummikuh @rysiek William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon either. I'd post a link to the tweet, and it's been deleted

@rysiek it has shrunk a lot which i am sad about, but what people need to remember is that foss shit never goes away, even when you want it to