that, and it’s also growing at the expected rate. mastodon is doing well, we just had an era of stability in social media for so long that a lot of people are forgetting how these platforms got started (or simply haven’t grown up with that). no platform is going to replace something highly established like twitter in a days or even months, but at the current rate mastodon definitely looks like the next big thing.
the network effect is going strong, and that’s really what matters. mastodon is alive and well, it’s just at the beginning of its bell curve, while twitter is already over its peak.