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by spaceribs 107 days ago
People won't care until they do.

After two years of talking up mastodon/pixelfed and most folks ignoring me, I've gotten 2 pings from family members about signing up and migrating off of twitter/instagram. It's only a matter of time and how quickly the rug gets pulled out from under folks I think.

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It’ll get bigger for a bit for sure, but it’ll never be mainstream until they change some fundamental things about how they operate.
and network effects.

Maybe their closer contacts disappeared…