It is already failing as the ever increasing purity tests march on and servers ban each other for hair splitting differences in leftist ideology.<p>There is also no opposition to their conspiratorial nonsense and there is nothing leftists hate more than not antagonising their political opponents.<p>I ran the experiment where I watched 40 accounts claim they were leaving twitter and only 1 is now not continuing to post regularly. I am very confident these results are repeatable.<p>Nobody would love to see these social media companies crumble more than me, but I can be absolutely certain it will not be because of mastodon.
> Perhaps it's no coincidence that people started talking about Mastodon on the same day that Twitter lost its huge NFL live stream contract to Amazon (they don't even have a social network). It's a tough moment in Twitter's ongoing quest to pivot to on-air-all-the-time media streaming service<p>Most revealing segment.