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    16 days ago

    having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask

    Email is the usual analogy.

    trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.

    Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS… i mean rules, you know that.

    And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person’s friends are on platform XYZ, that’s where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).