[firecall]

The issue I see is that the Tech Community, that form and influence opinions, is going to be cautious about investing time in another private social media company.

Mastodon has the mind share already as the de facto Twitter replacement.

Bluesky looks suspiciously like it’s dead in the water.

[telotortium]

> Mastodon has the mind share already as the de facto Twitter replacement.

It did, until it got infested with far-left refugees who started banning entire instances whose users their have political disagreements with. Between that and the lack of ease of signing up or setting up your own instance, Mastodon is not taking over from Twitter anytime soon, although it has formed its own community that I'm sure will continue to use it. If Mastodon becomes even as popular as Tumblr now, let alone at its peak, I would consider that a surprising success.

As for the "tech community", some hackers did go over to Mastodon. That's great, but they didn't cause IRC or mailing lists to take over the world back in the day, and Mastodon is even more technically dysfunctional than those (making it so easy to completely block instances is a major issue). Call me when VCs start moving en masse to Mastodon.

[firecall]

On the VC moving to Mastodon bit: I guess that’s a very SV centric perspective?

I live in an obscure part of Australia, and the less VC posts I see the better. If I saw a post from @jason I’d know it was time to leave ;-)

But seriously, for me, I have zero interest in any of those VC posts or commentary. The value is in more local individuals and other interest groups being active. YMMV :-)

[firecall]

That’s interesting!

I signed up, and poked around a bit.

But by and large I decided I was done with that public style of social media.

Now I’m pretty much just HN, and some Dark Social; Telegram, iMessage and FB Messenger friends groups.

Don’t @ me about FB Messenger LOL. I know…. But for our local School Comms it’s essential.