Just like any other open source project, they always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Its cool that techies have adopted Mastodon but normies have moved on or could never figure out the weird(to them) way in how it works.

Shannon Morse had something to say about this phenomenon a while back. She noticed that her stress levels went down after all the techies left and she did not join them(because there is no promotion she could really do on a niche platform and she is in the business of promotion). I 100% concur with her. Those people that complain about everything, living in a tech bubble and just generally raise your unhappiness level, they are all on Mastodon now. So "Task Failed Successfully" I guess?