@mewmew @realcaseyrollins i've seen this cyclical repeating on the fedi for years (since the GNU Social era):
- Something happens, usually on twitter
- Somehow the fedi gets proposed as an option
- The thing that started all gets attention, sometimes even from the mainstream media
- Huge hordes of users come
- Most of them show themselves confused, some people try to help them, some of them try to actually adapt to this model, other just talk how shitty it seems for them
- The thing that started all starts to lost attention and became forgotten
- Few of these users that came stay on the fedi

I don't see how ads (even if they success, that i also doubt) could bring different results than this kind of free advertising.

@sathariel @realcaseyrollins yeah pretty much. The people who want to stay will. It being niche is fine, most people wanna be submissive to corporations.