This is the most often cited reason that celebrities, reporters etc. say that keeps them from using Mastodon.

People ignore the needs of the vast majority of the userbase to the peril of us all. Mastodon could have worked to reach out to those content creators to give them what they demanded as a deal breaker, but instead now we've lost them to Bluesky and will in all likelihood have to wait for enshittification of that platform to ever have another chance at that.

Likewise the Threadiverse works for us who use Arch Linux btw, and to have conversations with internet randos (we are downright kind here, or at least we can be, although that's virtually gone over on Reddit, outside of tiny niche subs with barely any content, much as we have here:-), but I don't know how we can attract the content creators, especially when the audience for their content is not enough for them to bother with (AND it's "too complex to use" - I mean it's not, except... isn't it though? Like where's the modmail? or a notification if your comment gets removed/locked? why does viewing it from different instances show different sets of comments, and also different upvotes/downvotes?!? why does join-lemmy website want to send me to Lemmy.ml, and why oh why didn't someone tell me that I can't criticize Russia, China, or North Korea there!? It would have been nice if that had been WRITTEN DOWN SOMEWHERE!?!? maybe the side-bar would have been a good place to put it, like the "Rules" section?!?).

The experience on Lemmy (unlike Linux, no /s here) is objectively terrible, it's just that we here prioritize different factors and are willing to put up with its many (Many MANY) inconveniences in order to use a FOSS platform. But others have their own priorities, and that's okay - everyone should be free to use what they want. The downside to that is that outside of Linux and generic content like memes and news, there is very little content available here, especially for niche interests. Hence why the content creators remain on Reddit bc that's where their audience is (except the ones who simply unplugged from social media entirely). i.e. fuck spez, but... also, he was right. He really can treat his users poorly, and enough of them will remain to keep it afloat, rather than come here where it's "difficult to use", and Lemmy moves very slowly to address those needs (e.g. to allow for account migration, where e.g. messages sent to the old place will be forwarded to the new).

"Portable identities" is a major feature of Mastodon and ActivityPub platforms in general. It'll be on Lemmy one day too.

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