The average user is hopping from phone app to phone app, following their favourite interner celebrity. They don't care about the rest.
Meanwhile, VC backed businesses can buy internet celebrities, and on the cheap.
Kichae
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Can you come up with more examples? Because you're coming across as "this happened to me, personally, once, therefore it's run amok!"
No one is saying that defederation doesn't happen. They're saying it's not the norm. And hexbear isn't the norm, any more than lemmygrad, or poa.st are.
Misskey has a more similar UI to Twitter, and it can't even get noticed by fediverse users.
When you go to comment on a blog, where do you sign up?
I mean, it's a network of indeoendent websites. I'm not sure what kind of solution to this people want.
People seem to be able to choose which wrbsite they're signing up for when looking at Twitter, BlueSky, and Threads. It's not like it't that weird of an idea.
They even grok the idea that different Wordpress-based websites are different from each other!
Maybe if we stopped treating "Mastodon" as a space, and talked about it like the webhost software it is, people would understand.
The fact that the fediverse has been mentally limited to "Mastodon and Lemmy" is so sad. The features many people complained weren't on Mastodon were right there on Akkoma, Misskey, Friendica, Hometown, and others. But nobody would even look at them.
Even on the fediverse nobody wants to discuss the sea of alternative services.
I cry a little bit every time someone acts like Misskey and its forks don't exist
There's a lot of that. A ton of FOSS software is somewhat exclusionary because it's made for the people who make it.
But a lot of the UX issues on Mastodon have nothing to do with the tech, nor the UI. They're social in nature.The existing userbase skews technical, which affects what people discuss, and people looking for help are met with a deluge of tech savy people giving tech savy advice.
Oh, and there's the mass of very vocal users on niche sites that have strong feelings about having their niche safe space invaded by "normies", and who let it be known that new users should learn and adhere to "the rules" and respect the unlisted, unagreed upon nettiquite of social outcast "progressive" fedi or GTFO.
And then, on top of the social, there's just the fact that most Internet users don't really grok the Internet these days. Twitter or BlueSky aren't websites to them/ they're "apps". The very nature of federation on the Fediverse runs counter to how they understand how thir "apps" work.
They don't want to have to know about it, but they can't avoid people talking about it, making judgements around it, and having to confront it when edge cases crop up or when admins decide they don't like or trust the new crop of fedi websites that have sprung up this month or last.
On Twiiter or BlueSky, they don't have to think about any of it.
ETA: Things might be different if people stopped treating "Mastodon" as a place that exists on the Internet, but even the Mastodon developer treats it that way, when it's convenient to him. He's created a little functional monopoly, and seems to care moee about that than anything.
Mastodon servers are Mastodon branded, and that is a mistake, in the long run. We need to communicate to people that they can sign up for MyInterest.social, that is MyInterest branded, while also getting to follow people elsewhere. That overcomes the biggest hurdle.
But that doesn't satisfy the egos of people in positions to right the ship.
As if development teams choose their projects in publisher owned studios.
What's the claim about federation that overcomes the bullshit of social media usage?
Anything niche by computer geek standards So, like, anything from normie interests to things that are so niche that you need 30 million MAU to have an active space.
Thing is, one thing people want out of a microblogging experience is the validation of followers. If it was all about the hashtags, they'd be on Reddit or Lemmy, not Twitter and Mastodon.