We Need to Talk About Mastodon Ggmbh
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After the Twitter exit bump, the whole Mastodon ecosystem has dwindled to less than a million monthly users, distributed over hundreds or thousands of servers. Mastodon.social is filled with complete crap. It’s like enshittification without profits. Hacker News have more monthly users.
If you pick random active user, they often have zero active followers. They post their stuff into a void.