cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1121773
I am confused. Why hasn’t mastodon capitalized on this yet? With the drama of reddit and hype around lemmy shouldn’t we see some fanfare for mastodon and other open source alternatives too? Meanwhile a meta-affiliated product logs 5 million users on launch day.
I think it’s about advertising. it’s very corny, but it’s true. if mastodon/lemmy had the same advertising power as Facebook/Twitter, then there would be comparable results.