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Mastodon Is Doomed (justingarrison.com)
6 points by mariuz on March 19, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> There should be a single binary, self-updating, single-user instance.

This sounds like a suicide mission. You can already set this up in the current system, why does it need to be more popular?

I'm a monthly active user of Mastodon. It's boring, and if it was anything else then I'd quit using it. I don't want monitization, IPOs or Zuckerberg taunting. I want my peace and quiet so you can go dogfood the media du-jour.


Sadly I think he’s probably right. If you’re tech-savvy it can sometimes be easy to forget that a lot of people aren’t, and IMO Mastodon is probably too complicated for the average person.

My mother is 80 years old and she is the least tech-savvy person I know. I have learned a lot about designing software just by watching her struggle to use her various devices.


> Like Wordpress, the best way to use Mastodon is to pay a company to run it for you.

Right. And no one self-hosts Wordpress. Ok.




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