Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko

Yes and no. For example, I work in pest control and mostly lurked twitter for pest control content, as a lot of experts in that field used twitter exclusively and never bothered with facebook, instagram, reddit, discord, or any other networking site.

There is absolutely no pest control content from those experts on Mastodon at this time. Niche, I know, but its a concrete example about how not every base is covered on Mastodon (yet).

Its silly to blame people for not flocking there when there is a demonstrable lack of content.

There are no people I find interesting. I cannot stress this enough, Mastodon has absolutely jack shit for content. A hashtag with relevancy to me might have two posts, EVER, both from dead accounts.

It is a barren wasteland. I am very much tired of people assuming I want to be spoonfed content when I just want there to be any content at all.

There is no algorithm feeding you.

Mmmm say it again

I mostly just used Twitter to keep updated on various indie games/artists/authors/content creators. I'd imagine they would go to Threads or Tiktok's new thing before giving Mastadon a shot, and some of them have.

I don't want to be a downer; Mastadon would be my favorite Twitter alternative with how it functions, but in its present state Mastadon just doesn't work for my use case. I think for now I just have to phase Twitter-likes out of my life unless I'm willing to bite the bullet on putting up with meta or 𝕏.