Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”
Peter O'Shaughnessy, Medium, 2018/11/12
Why has Mastodon survived despite the scepticism of early critics? This article makes a good case as to why those sceptics were wrong. Essentially, survival for Mastodon - an a distributed open source federated network supported by users - is very different from survival for a typical start-up, which has to grow fast and raise funding or die. More...