An analysis of why Mastodon failed to capitalize on the Twitter migration according to a former Mastodon admin. These all match my experience
1. Features competitive to Twitter of 2008 when we’re in 2023
2. Users don’t care about decentralization
3. Decentralization makes the user experience worse
4. Its decision makers consider its usability flaws to be features not bugs.
5. It’s culture is exclusionary
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/
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2023-06-21 01:36:29
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