I boosted this. It is not helpful, but it is true. Especially the last toot of the thread. How can we change it? I want to change it. My ideal is this type of federated platform with the same breadth of users as the #birdsite. The only way I can imagine that happening is out of my control because I am not a user with large amounts of people who want to hear what I say. But for those who do, I try to share my toot threads on the other site to draw at least some views if not some converts.

https://zirk.us/@carmenmitchell/110415425423129038

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Carmen Mitchell (@[email protected])

I was going to make this into a much longer thread but I’ll just cut to the chase: I’m likely leaving this space, and almost certainly going back to Twitter. I’m not going to delete my Mastodon account, but don’t see myself using it for the foreseeable future. I’m finishing my 7th month here. I’m a monthly donor to my instance and have given money to others. I wanted to be here, and in this model of social media. But it came down to this: the people aren’t here.

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@Brad_Rosenheim I've actually got more followers here than I ever had in that other place, and I've only been on Mastodon for seven months. And I like the people here...
@toxtethogrady I have about half as much in 7 months as I got in 10 years on the other site. I think this federated has huge potential that it hasn't reached yet. But I still know and respect people over there that just haven't come over here. Replacing them will take time, and maybe ultimately they will come here. But I think we have shown over and over that we, as a society, are highly resistant to any perceived sacrifice.

@Brad_Rosenheim Definitely true.

Several reasons:

* Commercialized platforms have a lot more resources invested in them to make them engaging
* Centralized platforms have the ability to do a/b testing to figure out what gets people to use the platform and what doesn't
* There's a network effect, where to really make a new platform work, you need to get a bunch of key people to all move at once. Some communities (eg: computer security) did this with a coordinated move.

@dsacer Yes. Agree fully on all of your points. Point three is difficult to organize. It probably needs to organized by those key people.