I think the reason to leave is even simpler:

The game is rigged.

Once shitface decided to weigh the algorithm to give him and his shithead nazi friends +1000 'posty points' (or by whatever arcane process the system decides whether you're allowed to see posts or not), your "stay and fight" was a bit like being a Cavuto on Fox: you're there as a 'liberal' to be a punching bag and a target.

But even worse: to provide the illusion of balance.

My challenge to people who claim that "Mastodon is too complicated."

Okay, fine.

Explain the process by which X decides which posts get seen or not seen by people who follow someone.

Meanwhile, on the fediverse: You post shit, your followers see it in their Home feed.

That's it.

Or as I'm fond of saying:

It works on Mastodon/the fedi the way you think it should work on X.

When you don't need to reach some required 'engagement level' for a post to push it to your followers, all the performative "influencing" literally generated by the arcane rules of engagement, suddenly becomes completely unnecessary.

As such, when people forced into that song and dance come here, they stand out for a little while.

Fine, let's consider Bluesky.

Bluesky does have a "Following" feed which I can only assume works identical to the fediverse, and it just shows a chronological feed of every person you follow.

I'll assume that because anything else would be ridiculous.

But then...there's this shit.

See that 'Time spent viewing'?

That means they are tracking page views. That's also the basis of tracking your eyeballs, your clicks, and selling that to advertisers.

No fedi software I'm aware of (Loops perhaps?) has even remotely the ability to track what you clicked on, how long you viewed it, or any other invasive fuckery like that.

I literally don't know how much time you spent viewing my posts because I can't.

I don't know if you clicked on one of my links or not, there's no analytics tracking my 'post performance' or some such.

Great for privacy, but of negative value to advertisers.

To be clear, advertisers want to know how many 'impressions' their ads got, how many people saw their post/ad, how many clicked. That's just baseline, and requires a certain amount of client-side tracking to provide that data.

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