@Gargron king 👑

@Gargron However, it is good that the number of people is increasing.

@Gargron I'll take steady growth over meteoric rise any day. Those weeks were kind of intense!

@Gargron I should log out and log back on occasionally :)

@Gargron Also, plenty of people signed up on more than one account and may only now be settling into the account they stay with.

It's still tremendous growth.

@Gargron @gpt how could Mastodon boost retention?

@Gargron I've seen a number of new people sign up and drop off after a few days. They may want to just check it out, consider options, wait for more critical mass. Trying to think back to my Twitter experience circa 2011, when only a small fraction of my friends were there, and it wasn't a hub for public activity and news.

@Gargron well, while competitors are falling, especially Twitter and Reddit.

@Gargron is it accurate to even call it a service

@Gargron seems all the cool people are staying anyway... So their loss. 😂

@Gargron @Gargron I have never actually felt so enriched by a social media service as I do with Mastodon. I am immunocompromised with LongCovid, so this *matters*. Thank you. <3

@Gargron we’re here for the long haul, so no hurries.

@Gargron So if you never log out, do you stop being counted as an active user at some point? Or do other actions influence this count as well?

@Gargron posts and comments are still up.

@Gargron

In the past I've signed up to, for example, #amazon and #spotify just to have a look around. Never bought or listened to a thing.

@Gargron As long the „big media players“ start to join #Mastodon soon, i don‘t think this is an actual problem…

@Gargron
It's only numbers
Quality counts!

@Gargron Are you referring to…
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-musk-drove-more-than-a-million-people-to-mastodon-but-many-arent-sticking-around
…in the #Guardian?

I saw article today and how it suggests Mastodon is so difficult to use. It honestly doesn’t seem that different from #Twitter to me and I greatly appreciate lack of algorithm and ads. The thought of returning to Twitter makes me feel a bit ill. I’ll take small and difficult, thank you.

@Gargron

I first signed up in 2018 but only made the leap recently

@Gargron Well I’m here twice a day every day now