Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I'm not so convinced that a lack of safety features or quote posts or whatever is what drives people away.

Decentralization is less user-friendly, DIY/open source is also less user-friendly. We're dealing with people raised on apps who want a definitive, single, unified experience. And any "jankiness" in the experience becomes a quick, justified trip to 'uninstall the app.'

The thing is, Bluesky shares your block list publicly, a HUGE user safety issue, and so I think if people really cared about user safety issues, they'd not be on Bluesky.

So why are people actually there?

They are on Bluesky because it's the alternative to Twitter for most people who want a simple, unified (centralized) experience.

Oh, onboarding along with a prebuilt list of follows? Yes, I'll take that.

I can see the appeal.

Meanwhile, on the fedi, you start with NO home feed at all and have to find people or hashtags to fill it.

So you do some searches, you find like 20 people and you think that's good enough to get started. And then you wonder why you're not really seeing many posts, or why the feed seems so slow and it's because the 20 people you followed aren't high-volume shitposters, also they are in a different timezone, etc.

And there's no other "you might like these posts" algorithm kinda thing going on, and there's little onboarding to speak of at all.

Finding "your people" is a bit harder, etc.

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