BuzzFeed Editor in Chief, Ben Smith, mentions Mastodon as an example of a social network that "comes after the social media empires"

re: rise of Switter: "Perhaps the most striking lesson here was the technical ease of spinning a big, functional new social network up in just a few days"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation?utm_term=.lcQdKZJQ8#.cm5Y4q1Vx

@schlink "Just a few days" I don't think @Gargron will agree after working a year alone I think on Mastodon code before it became "famous" ;p

Actually the success took a few days when main medias talked about it and more and more sysadmins installed their instance but it take a lot of work to make it successful :)