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Then you still won't fix all the bugs. Time is your enemy, and new hardware and its requirements will introduce their own bugs.

And today in "things that never happened" we have another wonderful story from sunny 4chan:

I'll just paste here what I wrote elsewhere:

• The average person is tech illiterate, so having them understand what a "federated platform" is, is too much to ask. It may be easy for you or me, but we're here on Lemmy, so that immediately makes us not the average.

• The average person also doesn't care what a federated platform is. They just want something that is convenient and works. Same as the above point; maybe we would be willing to sit down and figure things out, but others will consider that a waste of time and bad.

• In that sense, federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience.

• From personal experience, trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating. Some rules were too restrictive, some rules were too vague, other rules looked like they were created for sensitive little snowflakes. It was like reading through the rules of Discord servers. Not a good look for a social media platform.

• Something like Bluesky tries to be both; a platform without algorithms (or only user-created algorithms that you can choose to subscribe to), where you can make your own instance or just be part of its centralised instance. The fact that the overwhelming number of people choose the latter should tell you enough about what people want.

Everyone is using Gmail or Hotmail. So it's not the same, even if it technically might be.

When I searched for Mastodon a few years back the first page I landed on was one where I had to browse and choose an instance. If that was what most people saw back then during the first Twatter exodus, then nobody is going to look back.

The average person is where all their friends, who are also average people, will go. And that'll be on the platform that requires the least effort to sign up to. Which isn't Mastodon.

I'll just paste here what I wrote elsewhere:

• The average person is tech illiterate, so having them understand what a "federated platform" is, is too much to ask. It may be easy for you or me, but we're here on Lemmy, so that immediately makes us not the average.

• The average person also doesn't care what a federated platform is. They just want something that is convenient and works. Same as the above point; maybe we would be willing to sit down and figure things out, but others will consider that a waste of time and bad.

• In that sense, federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience.

• From personal experience, trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating. Some rules were too restrictive, some rules were too vague, other rules looked like they were created for sensitive little snowflakes. It was like reading through the rules of Discord servers. Not a good look for a social media platform.

• Something like Bluesky tries to be both; a platform without algorithms (or only user-created algorithms that you can choose to subscribe to), where you can make your own instance or just be part of its centralised instance. The fact that the overwhelming number of people choose the latter should tell you enough about what people want.

Mastodon sucks really bad. It's a complete dead end for an artist.

Now where is that politician that was so passionately talking about coal the other time...?

I'm using Plasma, and I'm having trouble finding where it is. Where would I look for this setting?

I may need to look into this, because the colours between my drawing tablet and main monitor are quite different.

If you think they're bots, you can just subscribe to a user-curated block list for bot accounts.

It's rather odd you think discord is full of children... And that there aren't verification processes in place.

You're creating a problem with Discord that doesn't exist, or at least, not in any way that's unique to discord.

1- What does that have to do with anything?

2- Then make a private server for just your friends.

3- Then make a private server for just your friends.

And no, it wasn't better. Just... different.