i mean yeah but bluesky also has some incredible losers and if thereās any discourse about it on mastodon i certainly havenāt seen it
here there are tons of people tossing off āmastodon sucksā jokes
1) A lot of it comes down to initial experience when folks tried to join Masto. Itās nowhere near as easy to integrate into (onboarding is much improved but still high-friction) and there was a lot of frustration trying to make it like standard social media when it was designed intentionally not to.
2) Decentralization means thereās **way** more variation in experience depending on who you are and where you start off. And thereās no denying that there are a lot of folks with entrenched culture/interests there that are actively against change.
3) There is/was a culture of technical elitism to mainstream Fedi/Masto simply because it was designed precisely for that sort of person. Itās unfriendly and unwieldy in many ways if thatās not your thing. It **is** changing, but itās slow and thereās pushback.
4) Finally there is a serious white-liberal BS issue there. The very real and serious problems faced by incoming BIPOC users caused very understandable anger and a lasting negative impression. And it has *not* been fixed. Again - slow movement because nothing is top-down, so everything take longer.
5) All that said, there are some amazing people there, networking and organizing and doing tons of cool shit that frankly doesnāt happen on any other social media platform because itās so much more than just a place to extract fiscal value. But that experience is too subjective and chance-dependent.
But as stated above - there doesnāt need to be only one place for **everybody** to go. Iām glad there are C&W bars for folks that like
line-dancing, but Iām also happy I donāt have to go there and be forced to listen to the music when I can hang at a goth bar/Irish pub/anythingnotaNazibarz
