It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi.

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#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive

@rysiek My personal opinion is that fedi, or its successor, will keep on chugging along as VC poisoned shit will rise and fall, absorbing a portion of users that got tired of the churn every cycle, until people realise that it has become the de-facto standard.

@martin The biggest strike against XMPP was that it really was not prepared for the mobile world.

@ainmosni
It's now and it has seen several VC funded chat silos come and go. Probably it will still be here when the current silos #WhatsApp, #signal and #threema are gone.