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What's the reason for mastodon to gain so many new users now suddenly? Didn't Elon Musk start wrecking it quite a while ago?
I mean, each time he's messed it up more, another group of people migrates off twitter over to alternatives. I also think more people in general are becoming aware of the fediverse in general thanks to what's going on w/ reddit, but that's speculation on my part.
Seriously, it feels like established social medias are trying to kill themselves lol
They were already killing themselves by running at a loss. Now they're enshittifying to try and make any profit.
But switching costs were lower than they had hoped, so there's no profit to be made. Their business model was flawed.
The Boomers were right about (federated) email all along and now the rest of the internet is figuring it out.