It is not good news that Mastodon usage has dropped after the initial surge. But it's understandable. Patience and persistence are needed, along with greater (it's coming) ease of use here.
Meanwhile, it's disgusting that journalists -- whom Musk attacked directly and is still in some cases banning from his increasingly right-wing propaganda machine -- have meekly gone back to Twitter.
In a way, it's not surprising. Which says a lot about Big Journalism in our era.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/
@dangillmor I understand that journalists, especially independent ones (hi @robpegoraro , @timlee ) need to reach people where they are now, and there are still more people at Muskville. But I wish they’d at least mirror their posts here. The Fediverse can’t reach scale otherwise.
@dougdougdoug @dangillmor @timlee FWIW, I've moved most of my everyday banter to here, because the quality of the discourse is better. I do still share stories on both platforms, but I know how abysmal Twitter CTRs are and have no illusions about earning a ton of traffic for a story from a tweet.
@robpegoraro When I see your posts I boost them here... @dougdougdoug @timlee