I’d respond to the original question, Why do people leave Mastodon?, with a different question: Why has Mastodon become the most successful decentralized platform in such a short time? If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon now has about the same number of accounts as Diaspora, but it took just 7 months versus 3 years. The “waves”, as mentioned, come and go, and it’s been shown again and again that there are always more lookie-lookers than active users of any platform. Why would Mastodon be any differen...