I feel like if you scroll through any area outside of the fediverse you will here MASTODON SUCKKKKS OMG I HATE IT SO MUCH, it’s gonna fail. or comments saying mastodon will only exist for another year tops. Keep in mind I know in terms of microblogging apps for the fediverse mastodon is not the best, calckey is likely the best but most people only know mastodon
Not sure where you got that impression. I recently joined Lemmy after reddit exceeded my tolerance for suckiness and bullshit. I still use reddit occasionally (my 3rd party app still works) and i have only ever seen people posting suggestions to move to the fediverse, not posting that lemmy/mastodon are bad. There is a lack of mature apps (memmy is the only ios one i think) but this will improve no doubt. I think the main long term risk is around funding. Hosting a popular instance will quickly get more expensive as the userbase grows.
yeah lack of mature apps is real, it’s a big issue on android. on iOS at least they have that paid client ivory which is pretty good
I haven’t seen a lot of hate on it coming from regular people, but rather from those who try to cultivate an audience online. Content creators, influencers and others alike seem to see mastodon (and potentially any decentralized system?) as worse because it inherently prevents them from being guaranteed to be reachable by the whole community all the time (in case of defederation for instance), or to migrate their following along when switching instance
