Christopher MimsJul 5, 2023

it's weird how often people blame the technology of Mastodon for the failure of users to stick around instead of the most blindingly obvious, actual reasons:

1. habits are hard to break. people used to twitter or insta or FB are going to instinctually open those apps first

2. network effects are incredibly powerful. switching social networks isn't like trying a new toothpaste. networks move to new services *slowly* even when they're incredibly popular

NickJul 5, 2023
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@mimsical I think that new users experience a shock that their feed is so boring bc they don’t understand how much work the algorithms were doing to keep their brain focused on their screen. It takes time to curate a good list of follows and thus an interesting feed.
Jul 5, 2023 at 1:11pmWeb