[gargron]

Why do you believe that about Mastodon?

[FMecha]

Mastodon is too fragmented for the common people, and any chance of that being popular is getting usurped by Bluesky anyway.

[insane_dreamer]

Onboarding and discovery is much too difficult for the average user. Distributed is technologically cool, but will remain niche IMO.

[timbit42]

Mastodon isn't distributed, like bittorrent; it's decentralized, like email.