@NEETzsche @marine @phnt @alex @lanodan @mint @hj >So too is the case for fedi. Once someone is on fedi, they never leave fedi, not really.

Only if they're entrenched enough deeply, there's users to hook them in, and there's content (tm). Many people still have Twitter accounts or ways of using nitter to look at their favorite internet artist, because gee most of the artists on fedi happen to be lolisho artists. Considering how big baraag and misskey.io are though that really is a big demographic.

To stay on fedi you need to ditch a lot of traditional social media mindsets. If you're used to making new Twitter accounts and posting that you want to "find your frens", then it's old news to you. But if you're a normie with a following, you absolutely do not want to ditch it. Why do you think account sales happen? Why do you think someone like Sam Hyde paid money for certain handles as a joke? Why do you think it wasn't uncommon for an abandoned bluecheck account to get hacked and sold online for money to some shitposter who would post slurs and/or shit talk people with it as long as he could before the ban came in? Why do you think a common mastodong complaint is "ugh the instance went down I'm going to lose my followers"?