It's weird - there was a lot of support on HN for Mastodon before Elon Musk took over Twitter, albeit in the midst of a lot of criticism, mostly about UX. Now that the narrative of people fleeing Twitter because of Elon seems to dominate discussion, it seems like everyone wants to double down on hating it or dismissing it. Even with evidence that Mastodon's UX problems aren't insurmountable, everyone still wants to call code on Mastodon and declare it dead.
You'd think more people would be happy that the FAANG hegemony is being broken, at least a little, but I guess not.
There is a very simple answer to this. The people that were leaving Twitter went to Mastodon and found it unsuitable. It's not that people who were cheerleading Mastodon turned coat or went away, they just got outnumbered.
You'd think more people would be happy that the FAANG hegemony is being broken, at least a little, but I guess not.