Fediverse

Honestly, I've made peace with the fact that there are obstacles with these platforms for the mainstream user. And I think that is ok and can be beneficial for us in the long run.

Yeah, we need a critical mass of users to make posts and comments so people stick around, but honestly, most sites got worse when the mainstream users started joining. Basically, it's the dreaded Eternal September.

Reddit content quality started degrading after the 2010 Digg migration to the point you had to subscribe from the defaults and find smaller subreddits, which basically simulate the experience of a smaller website.

I'm ok if the average Redditor or Twitter user doesn't come to Lemmy/Mastodon at the beginning or even ever.