@mcc @mhoye my hunch for “rejecting it”? Its antiviral nature.

After almost 2 decades on social media, people have been trained to look for and chase after visible metrics (likes, followers, boosts) and feel lost without them. Ditto for algorithms picking content for them.

The Fediverse is all about fostering genuine connection but the behavior modification empires of Big Tech made people forget about this / discard it in favor of online popularity games