Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
Bloonface,
Café Lob-On,
Jun 17, 2023
What we have here is someone who has been on Mastodon for about eight months declaring that the "migration" from Twitter has "failed" because Mastodon is too hard to understand and use, because people don't are about "features" like decentralization and non-corporate ownership, and because purists are too stringent in their demands for the "right" sort of use. As usual with a post like this, there's a grain of truth to each point that is made. And I don't actually think Mastodon as such will be the long-term future of decentralized media; it' not intended to be that. I think the whole idea of a "migration" from Twitter to Mastodon - from one mass medium to another - is misguided. Perhaps better is to think of it as a diaspora. The future (ideally) will be where there is no one place where everybody goes, but a diversity of places, each with a different focus or emphasis, and all with the capacity (but not the obligation) to interoperate wit each other.
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