[hrhrhrd]

Mastodon already exists; it's just unpopular outside of small circles. People have already spoken with their time that they prefer hosted, "easy" solutions regardless of the evil they perpetuate (even if this preference is coming from a place of ignorance). The biggest question now is how to popularise it.

[single_source]

I just tried Mastodon yesterday. I was highly unimpressed with the on-boarding funnel and confusing UX.

I think one point people miss is, the social media market is highly competitive. All it takes is for Twitter's UX and on-boarding funnel to be 1% better than Mastodon's for Twitter to win.

Someone needs to provide decentralized social media platform without leaking the decentralization into the UX and on-boarding funnel and I've yet to see anyone do that to date.*

*I'm still looking so if anyone has anything for me to check out I'd be thrilled!

[suizi]

Mastodon leads to centralisation.

If a Mastodon server shuts down one day and everyone on it loses their accounts, they're likely to gather around one centralised set of servers.

There is a circle of trust too. For instance, the servers a server can trust not to propagate spam or content they dislike. This raises the barrier to entry and makes existing servers suspicious of any new servers which pop up.

The centralised option can also afford lawyers to deal with issues which inevitably crop up especially in the post-230 world we're headed towards.

[CincinnatiMan]

I looked into Mastodon a bit but didn't quite understand it and saw clusters/servers for fringe groups that I didn't really want to be associated with.