Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
by scabarott on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:36PM
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>>It's the standard techie failure to understand average users
You mean like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, Shazam, Grubhub, Bell labs, Intel, Xerox Parc, Pixar, Amazon etc, just to name a few (and of course Twitter)? Techies have been doing just fine in the anticipation department.
Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
by PurpleRamen on Sunday August 19, 2018 @02:38AM
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Except those techies fail all the time. But they are big enough that the fails don't matter on the long run.
Mastodon doesn't make anything 10x better or easier. It will never gain mass adoption accordingly. Mainstream users will never care about it, not under any circumstances.
It'll languish as just another techie fantasy, with every other decentralized premise (not one of which has ever acquired mass consumer use, not in decades of trying). It's the standard techie failure to understand average users. The same reason techies for nearly two decades have been baffled as to why average people haven't adopted command-line Linux - they can't be objective and properly put themselves into the shoes of other non-tech people.