• Ganbat@lemmyonline.com
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      1 year ago

      The problem is finding a viable alternative. Mastodon and Firefish are too much trouble for most people, BlueSky is a walled garden and Threads is… Well, Threads is Threads, enough said.

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        Why is mastodon too much trouble though?

        I really don’t see the difference. In fact the one difference I do see is that it’s a whole lot less toxic than Twitter.

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          Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

          You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

          With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

          Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.