[erwinh]

Interesting contrast to have both

“Mastodon is doomed?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713894

And

“mastodon has already won”

On the front page

[nologic01]

Its got people's attention. Both techies and heavy users of social media are aware of it, and maybe experiment with it. That is in essence the major win. Its no longer obscure.

In the reactions you can see all the typical traits of a new thing that comes to shake up a stagnant status quo. From naive excitement to cynical disbelief.

When somethig is doomed and wins at the same time you could say its a time of high drama.

Not bad for single person's work...

[jredwards]

I already grabbed a screenshot of that for the hilarity.

[hombre_fatal]

Then again, people usually post submissions on the same topic in response to a highly ranked submission. It’s not random.

[cornhole34]

data?

[blowski]

I've been on HN for more than a decade, and it's definitely a thing. I've even done it myself.

[cornhole34]

I've been on HN for more than a decade, and it's definitely a not thing. I've never even done it myself.

[hombre_fatal]

OPs admit to it all the time in the comments.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

It's a personal observation.

[duxup]

"Mastodon is doomed" is a good article, stupid title.

This article is garbage.

[erwinh]

Agreed, the critical article does raise some good points that these more decentralized/fedarated/self-hosted/self-custody protocols need to incorporate in their designs at some point of they really want to scale to challenge the current status quo of social media.

[quaintdev]

It won because now we know people are at least talking about it.

[tomjakubowski]

we know nerds are talking about it at least