Simple Social Network

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"But I want to be where my friends are" doesn't respond to logic. It's a reaction that is literally bred into us as a species."

I don't think this is true on federated networks.

Do people join a phone provider because their friends are on it?

No, because it makes no difference, because phone networks are federated. You can call people even if you're on different providers.

Your friends aren't "on" another server, you're all on the Fediverse and can interact and follow each other.

neatchee

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You're talking about an entrenched system that was inherited from physical landline service, vs a completely new federated system built on entirely different principles.

If I said "hey you should get a cellphone. I'm on Verizon." And you went to Verizon to be like "hey my buddy said I should sign up" and they're like "sorry, not taking any more customers, you should go find a list of other carriers to try, there's several dozen of them" that would be friction.
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Ian MacAllen

@feditips @neatchee a better way of looking at it is how groups of people stop texting their one friend that’s not on iMessage because everyone else is on iMessage.