The Conversation U.S.<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> is taking off! But Internet history provides numerous examples of other promising platforms for the digital public sphere that have died untimely deaths (remember Second Life?).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rwg</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aoir.social/@aram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aram</span></a></span>, who have reviewed the history and looked at the challenges, and still bullish on the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>. </p><p>Do you think Mastodon will have staying power? <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-fediverse-promises-social-media-without-big-tech-if-it-can-avoid-familiar-pitfalls-247178" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-fedive</span><span class="invisible">rse-promises-social-media-without-big-tech-if-it-can-avoid-familiar-pitfalls-247178</span></a><br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MastodonMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonMigration</span></a></p>