Also this is an astonishing exchange between two of the founders of Twitter.
@seldo
The way I see it is like the Linux kernel vs other operating system kernels.
Yes. They exists, but we are not competing with them. We are competing with ourselves to improve mastodon.
And so it will be everywhere eventually, like Linux.
Why do they think Mastodon is hard?
I am genuinely asking.
I saw a lot of complaints about racist content, and other no technological issues. I am not sure about the hard part though.
@pthenq1 @seldo nothing I've seen, technically, is any worse than any other site.
It's just cool to claim it's hard.
They get a fail whale, they chuckle and come back the next day.
A fedi server doesn't pull replies from another server fast enough, and it's an unsolveable nightmare and they switch to bluesky.
There is a cultural hivemind to this stuff and it's impenetrable.
@qkslvrwolf @pthenq1 @seldo Social networks are, well, _social_, and unfortunately high school never really ends, even for many well-adjusted adults with prominent jobs and stuff.
They want to be in the fashionable places where the fashionable people are, and mock unfashionable places to signal that they would never be caught dead there...
