Jack I-regret-what-I-have-done-but-this-time-I-will-not-screw-you-up-!-pinky-swear Dorsey knows how to create artificial scarcity and the hype around it.
Edit for an addition: Just stumbled upon this thread here on Lemmy.
Yes, obviously, but I don’t understand why tbh.
@0x815 comfort of group think. For most people, ease of use is what draws them to social networking. Federation is something they don’t grasp that easily, and they don’t understand danger of concentrating power on one platform.
I still think it is great Fediverse is here and evolves. It won’t attract huge numbers of users, but it might not need to to keep going.I have been discussing this with friends for a while. Ease of use is a thing, but what is so complicated, for example, with using Mastodon over Twitter and XMPP over Whatsapp? The UI is different and you need to choose a client and so, but “ease of use”? They are all easy enough imo.
But I fully agree that people don’t understand the danger of a centralized power and the social consequences it has.
Fedi isn’t hard to use, it’s just slightly different than centralised services with an extra step or two. None of which are hard to grasp, literally everyone online has federated communication in the form of email, but we can never underestimate the capacity of general users to put more effort into resisting change than actual change would take. It’s infuriating 😅
It’s why Apple is popular, ease of use for the average person is important. The more streamlined and fool proof you can make things, the easier the adoption is. (Apple might have been a bad example because their whole thing is much more complex)