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I read something recently that gave me food for thought. An alternative has to be 10x better for people to switch; and the core experience is what convinces people, not cool extra features.
I don't know how universally applicable it is, but I wonder how Mastodon stacks up in that. Personally I think it's 10x better, but is it really? Or more importantly, are we communicating clearly that it is?
@Gargron This depends so heavily on what people want their 'better' to be, and I honestly think the problem is that most folk haven't given it any thought, so there's no way for anything _to be_ 10x better, since "better" was never defined.
@emsenn This may be true.
@Gargron @emsenn for most people a social network is "better" when their friends are there. For microblogs, maybe replace "friends" with "celebs"
(Statement based on personal experience, not social research).
Users are the most important commodity for a platform.