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Some people can't handle change. They get used to a service (ex. Twitter) and rather than leaving when it completely falls apart, they will fight beyond what is reasonable to hold onto what they used to enjoy.
Those people can't be helped until they finally realize that Twitter as they knew it is gone.
why though? like. there are better services, there are services built almost exactly the same as twitter before the enshitifiation. Bsky + the various fedi platforms.
i know like. why. people are resistant to perceived change, but theres clearly more change staying on the hellsite if you step back and examine it.
its frustrating yk?
Maybe they can't handle it.
Ever had to do tech support for family? I can get logic like "[Feature description]. Check the box to enable the feature, or click skip to keep it disabled. You can enable the feature at any later point in the settings." and then they'll furiously yell "For fucks sake, but how do I turn it on? This stupid tech!"
i know exactly what youre talking about and I dont entirely get that behavior either. I understand it, I know why it happens logically, but it feels like a lack of effort or caring to me. It feels like someone saying "just get me my fill I dont care about the consequences"
Not better in terms of Metcalfe's Law.
Not better in terms of instantly being able to engage with your whole prospective audience, not having to build an audience one Fedi server at a time.
I say this as someone who has contributed money, servers, and PRs to alternative social media networks.
It is better for the planet, its better for mental health, better for diversity, accessibility, open information, its better in every way but the fact people won't move. the argument of "well people aren't there so im not even going to try" is frustrating because it abstracts the blame of lack of users to the platform instead of the individuals who are refusing to even try.
Metcalfe's Law? I've never heard of this mathematician. Or was she a chemist?
The value of a network grows with the square of the number of participants.
This explains winner-take-all dynamics in, eg, social networks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law