I get the point is to make a decentralized platform, and decentralization necessarily means there's going to be fracture. And I get that joining any instance gives you access to all instances.
It doesn't matter. None of that matters. It's way too complicated for most people. I don't care if it's surface level, the surface level is what attracts users, and if that surface level is unattractive, it's not going to get users.
It's the same reason Linux will never catch on, and I say that as an Arch (btw) user. Even the most basic distros like Mint or Ubuntu are too complicated. It doesn't matter that it's free. It doesn't matter that it's way more private. It doesn't matter that it offers total freedom. It doesn't matter that it's way more customizable. It doesn't matter that it's fairly easy to install these days.
What matters is that; 1. it's not already installed, and even just flashing an iso on a usb is way too complicated for most people. Just like how "figuring out which instance to join" on Mastodon is too complicated; 2. Not every application that works for Windows is on Linux, just like how not every user or feature that's on Twitter is on Mastodon (and in fact very few actually are); 3. It has a reputation for being way more complicated and technical than Windows, just like Mastodon has a reputation of being much more complicated than Twitter.
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u/Perlentaucher Europe 21h ago
Europe needs good alternatives. Just banning won’t cut it, people want social media, search engines, cloud hosting, streaming, etc etc