I hope one day someone calls one of my projects a failure because I only have a few hundred thousand daily users.

just don't compete against facebook and twitter.

mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete against, you can say that without criticizing the product.

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete against I really don't think that was ever the goal.
	▲	nvme0n1p1 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They never wanted to capture every single user (have you seen the people on twitter? who would want to deal with that???) They sought to carve out a targeted subset of users and did so successfully. Life is about more than numbers, you know. Would you call your local steakhouse a failure because they're not putting up the numbers McDonalds does?