It’s interesting just how many of my followers have ‘dormant’ accounts. Many came over in the artist exodus from TwiX, stayed a bit and then went elsewhere. It’s a shame, as there are many great folks in that list. I know a lot are active on that baffling place #bluesky , so why have they left the #Fediverse ? What was the lack of appeal?
I feel like the lack of appeal has been recorded pretty well by now (maybe I’m wrong).
Instances, many don’t like the whole thing. Ditto, Fedi-drama. The sense of seriousness many get around here also. And the difficulties you run into finding people, communities and connecting across the fediverse … many just don’t care for those things being difficult.
Basically, many put social utility over independence and privacy.
Overall, I think what many who like this place don’t get about people who don’t … is that this place can be rather anxiety inducing or dissatisfying. Not just “not good”, but for some, “actively bad”.
Something like BlueSky and prob Threads is trying to offer pre-musk-Twitter, which for many, is all they want.
Whatever great mission alternative social media strives toward has not clicked for many, and I’m not it’s really their fault TBH. I’m not sure the mission is clear.
@maegul Interesting. I actually find Bluesky more stressful due to complete lack of organic reach for what you post. Without hashtags, you rely 100% on reposts from followers (or to find anything), unless I am missing something. It’s like a system designed to rely 100% on ‘influencers’…
I’m not really a BlueSky person, but they rely on custom feeds for reach there, so you find the relevant feeds and how it works, which is often by hashtag anyway. Otherwise, hashtags are coming, tumblr style apparently.
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