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Social media is not social media any more. It's a one way stream of thinly coated commercials and political propaganda, behind a veil of interaction so that people feel some false sense of agency over the whole thing. In the ideal scenario, everything is perfectly tailored to targeted groups so that the whole experience feels very "engaging".
When people say the fediverse is hard, what I suspect they mean is that they don't manage to make it addictive in the same way.
People leaving Twitter are slaves looking for a new master or junkies looking for a new high. Using Mastodon as a Twitter replacement is hard in the same way it's hard to use commercial-grade glue as a substitute for heroin.
What do you mean that Mastodon promotes the discussion of complete ideas with room for context and citations?
I'm just here to be force fed hyperbole at a rate slightly slower than would pop a blood vessel in my brain.
Hey I find Lemmy and Mastodon addictive enough. Then again I still use mainstream platforms too. Mainly because their are things I want to look at and people I folloe that haven't or won't move over.
I don't use mainstream platforms much (other than direct messaging), and was pretty fine with Mastodon. I'm finding Kbin a bit too addictive though, maybe especially because I never really used Reddit in the first place.
Can confirm am a Twitter slave trying to use glue to get high and it ain't working 😔
I find it quite funny that so many people came from Twitter, didn't have content instantly fed to them and were like "what do I do???" you mean I have to find things myself? the horror!