The fediverse has gone from 0 to 0.4 in the last ~6 months. Again, the fashion communities still don't exist. The cooking communities are still pretty fucking small. There are not enough animal gifs. People who come here see it as empty, see people all discussing the same narrow range of topics, and leave. There's nobody to follow on Mastodon. I've been on Mastodon, specifically, for over six years. I got really excited when people started talking about it on Twitter, but I still haven't found more than a dozen accounts, and I still have zero engagement, because the fediverse still barely exists.