| > Mastodon functions basically identical to email and damn near every normies has figured it out. People struggle with emails everyday. Phishing, spam, identity theft, etc. We just delegated the complexity to Big Tech and even then it is barely working. > Pick a server, sign up, share your handle(email address) with your friends. Just "picking a server" is one step too much that the vast majority of people don't even know what it means or entails, hell most people don't even know what a server is. Also nobody is going find friends and share their handles with. Facebook just proposes you people after subscribing. X and Reddit just gives you the front page that makes the news. Mastodon / Bluesky / Threads never make the news. > Content wise it's a timeline so you, by default, only get who/what you follow. People don't know what they want or what to follow. The "I just get a community of people I want and know" becomes an echo-chamber very quickly and echo-chambers are boring and doesn't get millions of views. Call it "random crap the algorithm throws" if you want but it doesn't change the fact that people want to be on the social media where everyone else is at. |