🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 02:38:07 JST
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸The biggest reason that the Twitter/Mastodon/Canceldon/Blocklist side of the fedi struggles to take off is quite simple actually; they're not in the true counterculture. They can go back to Twitter any time they want, their accounts are unbanned, and they state all the state approved political opinions or thoughts online with communities. Nothing is making them use the fedi, and since they're scared of talking to real people who might have different opinions they blocked off most of the active nodes.
So when these people actually leave Twitter due to severe cases of Musk Derangement Syndrome, they are unable to get the same interactions. Someone who would post 30 times a day now and once in a while malding over HackerNews posts only a few times a day, if any. None of these landwhales will get their dicks sucked like on Twitter or a freer instance. Nope. I need only happy thoughts.
@PhenomX6 I remember checking my dead mastodon.social account recently, and wow, did things go downhill. When I first registered there, it was still boring and neutered, don't get me wrong, but now, it's really a far-leftist cesspool.
Honestly, pleroma.social was a much better introduction to the Fedi compared to joinmastodon.org (before they removed nearly all of the options for starter instances). You could just hop in, see that this instance is actually decent, and voila, you're now a Fedi user.
They suck at marketing the fedi for numerous reasons, one is the culture of censorship that goes on in the left. They can't say the real reason people want to use the fedi, but also they don't know any good reason to get people on other than "musk bad".
In fact before that, they suffered from the classic FOSS or "cryptobro" (as they describe blockchain fetishists, etc.) problem of not having any big reason to use it or giving people a reason to give a shit, think like how Urbit or all those hot air blockchain projects are marketed. Most of the decentralized services are as such and I have issues getting friends to use fedi.
@PhenomX6@lemonheep >think like how Urbit or all those hot air blockchain projects are marketed I still don't understand what urbit is. Some kind of weird, hard to use chat app that has other stuff piled on.