Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
People used to think the network effect for MySpace and Friendster were insurmountable.I played around with Mastodon last night and I think it has some bad but not insurmountable ergonomic wrinkles, but I worry its decentralization will prevent it from ever becoming mainstream.  Centralization makes it easier to deal with "bad" actors.  Also Discovery is a huge problem: how do I discover people I know?  How do content creators who want to build an audience (and so create content that would attract users to the platform) get discovered?  I think discovery is a bigger catch 22 than "nobody is on it."