Random author who has no say on if a platform does or does not succeed
Its impossible for mastodon to “not survive” because it’s decentralized
Its not a hot new thing it’s been around a long time.
I’ve already read a million articles like this that always boil down to “I don’t like this therefore it will fail” or “it’s not exactly like Twitter therefore it will fail” or the one I sympathize but hate hearing is “it’s to hard”