@mhoye One thing to remember is that although the mass twitter -> bluesky migration is *starting*, we're still in the range where a *lot* of the people joining bluesky at this moment are people who are willing to experiment. Meaning: Most of them are people who *already tried* Mastodon, since of course it's been around longer, and rejected it, and could probably clearly explain what reason they rejected it if asked.

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Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸

@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

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