Sad to see people fleeing the sinking ship of XTwitter and just not even considering this as an option. It just has to be some other centralized, corporate-controlled place run by the same three shitty techbros who have decades of experience ruining the Internet for all of us.
I feel glad for the many friends I do have here, but it's one of those moments where it feels like being principled really does leave you lonelier than you deserve to be.
The problem: everyone knows some Fediverse app is probably better. Especially if you set up your own domain ahead of time and get used to properly posting/curating all your stuff there, but it's a pain in the ass to set up full of bruising learning the whole way.
My contribution to the problem: I do not want to talk someone through all the steps needed and concepts involved in even a simple mastodon instance and then deal with them whining about how the other stuff was "easier" because I can only say "Of course it was, they aren't going to get you to sit there and blather about what you might wanna buy so they can rush that info off to other companies if they don't make it comfy/smooth ahead of time" so many times...
@silvereagle also, there is a RIDICULOUS amount of baggage around fediverse programs as the place where a bunch of The Worst People (who couldn't stay on corporate social media because they were so atrocious) had to go... And also the place where Old School Forum Drama causes all sorts of "Wait, I can't see my friends' toots anymore because these two admins are having a pissing contest!?"
Mastodon literally is the jewel of a crucible heated by extremists too spicy for Twitter and shitty admins who had the same "I can run this and become popular like I wasn't in high school" attitude that wrecked a LOT of forums and made big corporate "No, the people moderating this know that it's a job" social media seem appealing back in the aughts.
I am having a net good experience here but I'm not gonna pretend that there wasn't some fuckshit that happened right out in public for everyone to see that scared a bunch of folks away...
#TwitterMigration folks often just want #Twitter without the baggage. Which is why how one sees #BlueSky and similar services vis-à-vis #Mastodon depends in large part on what one thinks Twitter's baggage actually was.
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