@brianmerchant Personally, I feel that how much better the Fediverse is also makes it not-so-attractive amongst outsiders. There’s no algorithm to provoke people to drive up engagement (no matter how meaningless it is for the individual), but most people would have to gradually follow others to discover what they want to see. There’s nothing that can show them what posts they (sort of) want. For them, who have mostly just used algorithmic homepages until now, that kind of change can be jarring. There’s also the fact that the Fediverse just uses a pure chronological timeline, which cannot be changed by either personalized algorithms to get people addicted or voting systems (aka the ones on Reddit and Youtube), which can often be skewed by groupthink or irrational hysteria. This means everyone has a chance of being heard, and not just the voices other people want to hear (resulting in a higher variety of ideas). However, this also means that people wouldn’t really see influencers, which would be the initial drivers for going to other kinds of social media. They would see a different set of people on their timeline, which they are unfamiliar with. Basically, the Fediverse isn’t like other social media, which has the resources and economic incentive to artificially drive up engagement for their platforms.