Memes about the Fediverse.
Other relevant communities:
I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
People do try it and then are turned off by how crazy the hivemind here is. Wild conspiracies about musk is fun for me to scroll through and laugh at, but lots of people run in the opposite direction.
The alternatives are annoying to sign up on and letting the community be in charge just leads to hate speech being allowed. Which tbh also is an issue with traditional social media but there at least they are reliant on advertisers so they have an interest in controlling it.
Yeah people don't want rotten fruit, cocaine is way funnier and comes with ONE website, one mobile app... etc.