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Getting tired of these articles softballing the leaders of these companies, and then turning around and crapping on the open-source, federated alternatives.
But its the media, specifically the verge. They're going to defend the status quo, regardless of whats happening.
The reality is that normies don't want to spend that extra little effort to figure out something like Mastodon. They want it fed to them. And Mastodon isn't even hard to figure out - it just lacks a lot of the features that Twitter has but if Twitter is borked, what's the point of those features?
Might seem short sighted, but honestly I'm ok with normies not joining. Eternal September is a very real thing, and I think a good number of us still long for the weird internet of yesterday
Without normies here it's hard to get a broader base of discussion beyond gaming or tech.