@Snewdraws Right? I try laying out in as neutral, non-hostile/edgy language as I can why those other options are just gonna be more of the same problems we all complain about at one point or another. And they just seem to want to go back to "normalcy" of having those those general problems but not a site collapsing on itself under a single egotistical billionaire.

Even when I really illustrate how Mastodon isn't as fragmented or hard to use as people think it is, they shift to "well Mastodon is kinda sus, I hear lots of people with shitty politics fund it", y'know the crypto techbro or lib-right crowds. As if the entire thing is one singular entity, despite laying out the above, that it's NOT, we're varied, and able to block out the shitters and aren't owned by one all-powerful shitter.

It really is talking to a brick wall sometimes.