Sarah Perez
11:39 AM PST · January 8, 2025

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Relative obscurity is an aspect of it for sure, and I imagine networking effects are a big part of it as well. Accounts with a lot of followers tend to drive where people migrate. When a big account leaves twitter to bluesky they can pull thousands or even millions of users along with them. Meanwhile, people moving to Fediverse end up having to abandon a lot of the people they were following as a result. It's also a lot easier for an account to grow on a centralized platform which is another reinforcing factor here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seems like those big accounts always choose to go from corporate platform to another corporate platform. They almost never choose to move to the fediverse.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I suspect it's because it's easier to have a mass following on a centralized platform. A federated platform will inherently be at odds with that. I personally don't see that as necessarily a bad thing either as it makes the Fediverse unattractive to commercial interests and marketers.

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