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Sadly also a series of unfortunate events also made mastodon more frustrating to use for my particular community, which has led to me spending less time there than I would otherwise.

non-tech people found the UX of federation unacceptable and bounced off it. Nowadays a lot of it is people *deliberately* writing for a niche audience, recognizing that the "public square" is here. (at least, *I* use it when I want things seen by fewer people who understand more niche references.)

It’s like LaTeX vs Liber Office really….

...I'm a longtime fan of the fediverse idea (was one of those who made sure Wikipedia maintained an official presence on the OG Identica site ca. 2012, also created mastodon.social/@wikiresearch back in 2017, still maintaining it as a mirror of our X feed). But not sure about the current Mastodon

I had not heard of the Journa. host incident but I was able to guess which NYT article was at issue without Googling. 🤦‍♂️

A couple of years ago many in the Mastodon community pushed back hard against the idea of implementing global search because of the potential for it to be used for abuse (to help abusive users find people talking about specific subjects)

Fortunately, with @ap.brid.gy, the people on Mastodon who do want to be a bit more visible can be. I think the status quo with bridged accounts can be pretty stable

Agreed. I tried it for a few months, but the user experience was not a good match for my social media use. I'm here primarily for fun, everything doesn't need to be THAT serious/complex. Bluesky is so easy to personalize and control.

The Cyber security crowd went to Mastodon right after Elon took over twitter and they are still there. Haven't seen many of them switch to this app yet.

Good questions. Also: why did Threads fail?