Mastodon

Meanwhile, when you sign up for Threads your timeline is nothing but shitty influencers for the first few days, yet somehow they manage to press on through that without getting the vapors or whatever.

I like that I can follow people from my niche hobbies list+pros from the field I want to be active in. Averege users are so jaded and will complain for every network error they encounter. Don't get me wrong, people flock where the action is, they will learn how to do stuff on the fediverse just as they learned fb or other social media. I kinda dread those times, but I refuse to just gatekeep.

Honestly, how hard is it to understand the 'multiple websites working together to sync their contents' part?

I just don't use Mastodon because I never cared for Twitter.

Well, In 10+ years, I've never managed to understand how Twitter works, so I guess there's nowhere to go but up?

To be honest, I'm not tech illiterate and still struggle with Mastodon. I struggle to search/find stuff to follow outside of my local server. I know it's there and doable, but it should be obvious on how to find what I want to follow. If I struggle even a little bit with this, the average casual user, which these platforms will need for long term success, won't even bother.

I still don't even know what the servers on lemmy are, each "subreddit" is a different server?

Its easy to signup & get started, just have to be awake...

Not everybody uses social media the same way and some people need instant exposure to the community to get a better start. It doesn't help that these types of posts just make people feel like they're stupid.

I haven’t even used Twitter yet. Turns out i don’t have friends. I just like to scroll Reddit.

Right? It was significantly easier than usual for me, because there's no giant wall of legalese to read.