He concluced his article (titled "Mastodon will never be the next Twitter") with this:
"I suspect thousands of other Tooters (blech!) will soon do the same and Mastodon will lay down beside all other other fossilized social media platforms and fade from existence."
Since then, Mastodon grew to 1,300,000 users and 2,000 servers. This is why people bring him up today.
Okay, I am getting questions about who Lance Ulanoff is. Time for some Mastodon history.
Exactly a year ago today, Lance Ulanoff opened his article about Mastodon with this phrase:
"William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon.
This was a problem."
That was the day Mastodon became a shatner-proof network.
GNU social、ActivityPubに対応へ
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1804/06/news058.html
Since #WitchesTown #instance will be shutting down at the end of this month, #users could migrate to other servers, like:
https://dragon.style -- magic themed
https://occult.camp -- magic themed
https://mstdn.io -- development, security, general
https://pentacl.es -- witchcraft themed
https://toot.cafe -- development, design, art, comics, general
普段は個人で立てたインタンスにいます( @rk_asylum ) このアカウントでは主に飼い猫の写真をアップしたり、自鯖のメンテ時に浮上したりします。 #nere9ねこ部 #cat