Every time I see some public figure complaining on their YouTube channel, or their blog, or god forbid on twitter itself, about the nightmare of algorithmic social media, how twitter is bad, how instagram is bad or whatever it feels like an Eric Andre skit
Standing outside the fence of the Fediverse next to an open gate screaming “LET ME IN, LET ME IN” and then a dozen people in the comments are like “uh, sure, come on in” and then they’re like “no thanks I am good”
@glyph people (whether 'followers' or 'influencers' - both hateful words btw) are mesmerized by the sense of a vast agora where you can find anybody and reach everybody.
Ofcourse the walled gardens deliver on this only to the extent it fits their amoral business models.
But the #fediverse is in denial about the significance of this for wider adoption.