[davidjohnstone]

Yeah, the network effect is strong, but there's never been a better time to challenge it. I think the potential of success is partly based on quality of the alternative, but also on the direction Twitter goes from here. It doesn't seem like the worst bet to make.

[anigbrowl]

I would certainly like to see a replacement and Mastodon is deserving in many ways - pretty mature, built with sincere motives of delivering a better communication platform/protocol, decent UX and maintainers that listen. To the extent I express pessimism about it, it's because of patterns of social behavior rather than any shortcoming of Mastodon itself. Overcoming network effects needs some kind of can't-live-without-it innovation and sadly 5 years of trying demonstrate that federation alone ain't it.