Meta-post: I think this is the third time I've made an account and tried to commit to mastodon. The others times lasted for about as long as it took for the novelty of tooting about mastodon to wear off: once we all got that point, it turned out that nobody really had much in common and engagement slowly dropped to zero.
This time around, I'm actually genuinely enjoying being here. There's a lot more activity, and a far smaller proportion of it seems to be of the boring "mastodon is good and better than twitter" ilk. Maybe the critical mass to keep people around has finally arrived?
@spinflip It's to be expected, ne? I had a similar experience, joining.. late last year? I liked it all well enough, but there wasn't really enough happening to keep me around, I think.
For whatever reason, i thought I'd give it another try a couple months ago, and have been absolutely *loving* the sense of community and positivity. ^_^
@spinflip Oh, quite - think back to when F*c*b**k began: there were loads of similar sites - that one just happened to gain momentum.
I think the fediverse is well positioned to continue growing, for better or worse - there's quite a bit of organic growth appearing, as people encourage others to join in, and hellbird seems happy to snuggle up to the fascists, so there'll continue to be more "refugees" too.