Dare ObasanjoJun 21, 2023

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/

Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? – Café Lob-On

Show threadTom Bellin Jun 21, 2023

@carnage4life The core problem is that social media platforms aren't inherently profitable.

Running a monolithic service only works if you can somehow convince your users to accept all sorts of abuse (enshittification) and never leave.

The problem for twitter and reddit isn't really their competitors. It's that their value proposition doesn't make sense for most of their users.

Show threadTwitterRefugee
@tob @carnage4life
Facebook is one of the most profitable companies on the planet, so I can't agree with your basic premise. The key is to turn the massive number of eyeballs into ad dollars. That is actually easy... as long as you don't alienate advertisers. Neither Jack nor Elmo apparently get that part.
Jun 21, 2023 at 3:13pmWeb
Show thread🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Jun 21, 2023
@dbhebbard @tob @carnage4life That is the very nature of the #enshittification process, and yes, Meta has navigated it quite profitably.