[bhoops]

Mastodon could go either way, but i think as an experiment its sufficiently differentiated to warrant a rethink on how social media should be. Only a couple of years back Mastodon UX was too poor to be usable, but it has grown leaps and bounds now.

Mastodon might not be the next twitter, but maybe it has already succeeded as a refuge for people not wanting to be on twitter. The bigger problem mastodon has is that its servers are running full to take on new people.

We have been running a few instances of mastodon which now have more space for new users. Link in my bio if anyone wants to use them, but might run out anytime.

[robin_reala]

It’s worth checking if your instance accepts donations to defray running costs. E.g. mastodon.social gets funding from the Mastodon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

[Shoue]

There are also interesting instances like social.coop that are run like a cooperative – you join and are expected to donate monthly, as little as $1, and in return you get democratic control over the instance. It can be a cool incentive to "donate"/invest in the instance.

[UncleEntity]

> Only a couple of years back Mastodon UX was too poor to be usable, but it has grown leaps and bounds now.

I see strong parallels between this and blender when I was active in the community around a decade ago.

Everyone nowadays takes blender seriously as a contender in that market now so keep the faith, peeps.