As much as I’d love to see mastodon grow, I feel like a lot of people here like to ignore the number one most important feature of a social network: who’s on it.

Bluesky didn’t start with millions. Europeans chose it when there were none. Like Facebook getting its start because Savarin used his college frat connections across the country to get the ball rolling, I’m sure there were paid influencers who got things moving for Bluesky.

and mastodon just can’t have the social network with how confusing it is to a normal user, just like lemmy.

Decentralized platforms will never take off as long as people talk about how it works, you just need a URL with a sign up function that works and an app you can install, log in to and it works. That’s what a normal user wants.

Finding accounts to follow on Mastadon is fer less intuitive than finding some Lemmy communities to follow

That’s for sure. But just as an example a friend of mine wanted to move away from reddit but found lemmy too confusing with how people explained it. If nobody is there to actually tell him how simple it actually is he’d never move over here.

Anyone from Lemmy explaining how it works on reddit with 3 paragraphs is writing 2 and a half paragraphs too many to actually get people to move here.