@utzer @dansup apologies for chiming in, but I think it's quite relevant.
This very same morning I read a conversation between a few friends of mine in a Whatsapp group about the X and the current situation and, setting aside that "nobody" cares about free and open alternatives, one of my friends referred to Mastodon as "having Google+ vibes"
@utzer @dansup yeah, I know, but he said that in the sense that is something really niche that will eventually go away because nobody really cares.
I was a G+ user and will always say it was the best (from a technical and functional point of view) social network back then, so comments like that one from my friend really hurt me. And given what I've seen, not sure if continuously preaching about Fediverse to this people is a good thing at all