Love seeing the "many of the new Mastodon users did not want to stay there" articles, clearly written by "journalists" who don't have the first idea about how MAU metrics or user adoption curves work

(Basically, you *always* get an initial spike of people who have just created an account to check it out, and then immediately decided that it wasn't for them, and that downwards slope starts a month after the wave begins. This is true for every platform/service no matter how liked or successful)