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@sun@shitposter.world Part of me thinks that Fedi would have a much more diverse userbase without Bluskey, but then again, before Bluskey went public and thus hit it big, Fedi still wasn't really growing. It was hyped up for a few months when Twitter was bought out, but most others either hated how confusingly Fedi advocates talked about the platform (essentially a Twitter-lite-Youtube-Discord-Instagram hybrid abomination that has 500 completely identical versions of itself but each version may or may not be run by insufferable nerds) or disliked how little the community offers once they most likely just hopped on a large/midsize server that didn't fry itself from nontroversies (which I actually feel isn't the fault of Fedi's design as small platforms in general are kinda boring and have wannabe hippies).

Overall, Fedi still works fine for me, but that's really because the alternatives are the same old and bad Twitter and not Twitter but ran by some of the same untalented shitscripters behind Twitter, while this decentralized network is janky and nerdy but held its shit together for almost two decades. For others, though, they'll still join in Fedi much later on, but it'll be because of the actually serious instance admins who don't shit away their instances after two weeks and the actually serious devs who offer something better than Titkok/Youtube but it sucks. ​​

@sun@shitposter.world @eris@yourwalls.today Agreed, especially since us PC builders are very defensive about our hobby (and rightly so, cause' upgradeability is good for our Earth and pre-built manufacturers eat crayons for breakfast), and anger is a profitable emotion for social media companies.

Still, it's really funny to see the sheer lack of pattern recognition of this type of waste content. ARM laptops are still effectively an Apple thing, Web3 is niche yet again, and all bubbles pop after some time. It says a lot more about how much of a waste most modern internet media has become more than anything ​​