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You are on Lemmy. Why has the left not made this platform popular?
The general population will always stick to whatever is most comfortable and familiar. Even reddit was never a mainstream social media platform compared to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. why would you think an open source federated version, that is harder to sign up for then what the general populace is used too already, would ever become popular in this time of tech illiteracy? Not to mention its lack of funding and the fact almost every big instance on the platform would defederate from any instance which had a backing from a major corporation. This platform is never going to see the same adoption rate of the major platforms out there, even if for some reason political parties on the left decided they didnt care about, bribes, campaign contributions and lobbying from corporations its just to complicated for the simple minds of the masses to join.
And yet the platform could be easier and less enshittified because it doesn't have to generate profits, so that the general population makes the change.
I believe that it will happen in the long run but I am baffled by the low left investments. It makes me question if the left could ever hold power if they got it somehow.