[GravitasFailure]

The friction seems to be a selling point for a significant number of users that want to keep Joe and Jane Average out. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but it seems unlikely that any ActivityPub-based system will ever a 1:1 replacement for Reddit or Twitter or see nearly the scale of use that those platforms currently enjoy.

[unshavedyak]

Fair. I’m loving Mastodon and etc, and frankly a big selling point is that it’s not the Reddit or Twitter audience. If they joined my next desire would be looking for smaller instances or communities to filter out the vibe of Reddit.

That’s also a big reason why I come to HN. It isn’t Reddit. Though that’s getting worse as it grows, of course