Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

  • @glimseEnglish
    65•7 days ago

    I’ve got an idea as to why.

    I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.

    I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.

    The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•6 days ago

      I’ve tried to stick with mastodon for a while and after using it for months, your description of checking it out is STILL what my feeds look like. That’s all there seems to be on Mastodon.