Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.
@Gargron Would be kinda cool if the future had some of the features all the other platforms have today, though.
@elCelio @Gargron Without built-in quote-post functionality, it simply can't be used for the kinds of cross-contextual discussions other platforms allow, and which journalists, analysts, and other producers of high-quality posts require. Commonly-seen workarounds demonstrate a clear need for it and simultaneously show precisely how people want to use it on this platform.
Years of talk, a UX problem is now a policy issue, and I don't understand. I just want a basic short-form microblog feature.
@ryne @Gargron
I see in other platforms that the feature is used more for "look at how stupid this post is" rather than "look at this interesting idea, here is my contribution"
In Mastodon you can comment, boost if you like, block if you don't.
This makes easier for agreeable content to spread rather than disagreeable one, creating a different, albeit smaller, environment
I think this makes it a policy issue: people may have different opinions about it, but there is a trade-off to consider