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Why is Mastodon struggling to survive? (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 days ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.

Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

I'll say it again, the name sucks. It's not cute, it sounds like mastrubate compared to twitter, it just is not catchy.

TicTic, snapchat, the apps that make it have a stupid catchy name, mastadon ain't it.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 3 days ago

Maybe rebrand as Y

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I do kind of like that they call messages "toots." That's my kind of stupid.

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Better name than X.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Twitter really isn't that much better. I remember when Twitter first started and it was getting a lot of crap for its weird name and that you made tweets. It count on eventually, but it's going to take constant exposure.