• @[email protected]OP
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    1 day ago

    the biggest flaw with lemmy is that none of yall can conceptualize how difficult it is to convince your entire friend group to migrate platforms

    the furry community on twitter is and almost always has been massive. (edit: i think i was corrected by an actual member of the community below, im slightly misinformed here) nothing went wrong—things just haven’t gone right yet to get them to transfer like journalists and activists have.

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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      111 day ago

      Most of us migrated to bluesky early on. Like, part of the reason why bluesky blew up was because invite codes spread like wildfire through the furry community.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        31 day ago

        Interesting! I actually didn’t know the previous state—I am simply just aware that furry Twitter is still huge currently, despite the transition.

        Do you think there is hope for a second wave? Or are the laggards beyond hope, from your perspective?

        • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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          61 day ago

          Eh, a lot of them are probably mirroring their posts to Twitter. They’ll probably be there until someone forces them off. The ones who haven’t migrated or started to migrating are kinda probably “beyond hope”.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        Y’all we need to make invite codes on mastodon and people might actually join and use it.

        • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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          11 day ago

          You just need to make it easier to use. I considered mastodon early on, but everyone moved to bluesky because it was simple, easy, and basically just like Twitter with the promise of using a federated protocol sometime in the future. So that’s where I ended up. Not that I use microblogging sites very much, but that’s why I have a bluesky account and not a mastodon one.

            • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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              21 day ago

              Nope, I knew people who complained about how they couldn’t find each other on mastodon. Y’all severely overestimate how much effort people want to put into their social networks. Most people have way higher priorities. If you can trip over the bar, then the bar is too high.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 day ago

                If you can trip over the bar, then the bar is too high.

                Sound like I like social networks with some kind of awareness of the world.

                • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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                  Nah, you just like social networks where the software itself is a hobby; and that’s okay! Nothing wrong with that. You just gotta remember that for most people, a social network is there for people to socialize. If you’re having to do non-social tasks for your social network to function, then you’re not gonna get wide adoption.

                  • @abbotsbury
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                    214 hours ago

                    An extremely simple to use website front end is not “software itself a hobby”