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They'll generally choose convenience over a better path. This ranges from the people who just leave grocery carts in the parking lot, to people who stay on the platform formerly known as Twitter as opposed to being a part of supporting more ethical alternatives, to people who defend the data harvesting practices of big tech companies, just to name a few examples.
Twitter should be one of the easiest social media platforms to leave. Mastodon seems every bit as good as Twitter with the lack of users being it's only real flaw.
The microblog style seems to work the best with federation as well since you're following people.
I tried mastodon and it wasn't an easy switch from twitter for me.
I mostly followed artists on twitter, none of which had moved to mastodon, and likely most of them never will.
It was also pretty impossible to just happen upon cool people I'd wanna follow randomly because the default feeds are just everything.
Say what you will about algorithmic social media feeds but they're a lot better than just showing you everything at once.
I tried to switch to Mastodon a few times in the past, before the twitter issues were even happening and I could just never get into it.
And you're right, the only reason I was ever on twitter is because I was following artists that weren't anywhere else. Now I'm not on there and some of those artists never moved platforms because it was a hassle for them to and they risk losing their audience when they move platforms cause you can never just expect people to follow you as an artist.