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I have no idea why they are publishing pieces like this, and it's objectively false. Mastodon had over 60,000 sign-ups in the last week, and my feed is as busy as it ever was. It went from like 4 million when I signed up less than a year ago to over twelve million now.
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount
Active users have gotten over their initial spike and have now levelled out several orders of magnitude larger than it was months ago.
https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats
Either this author has a poor grasp on statistics or is a Twitter superfan or has monied interests.
I think it's because there was a hope for wholesale migration of most/all users from Twitter to the Fediverse. Or at the very least for enough migration to make Twitter a barren landscape that would precipitate its imminent demise. Neither of those happened. Of course, neither of those are realistic outcomes either.
ArsTechnica has been particularly negative towards Reddit in their recent coverage. I don’t see any bias myself.
From your second link, the average monthly users have gone from 2.3m to 1.3m since the Twitter migration. That is "falling off a cliff", imo.
The author describes legit problems. Discovery on Mastodon is bad - it's hard to find users and trending topics. The usability issues the author describes are legit.