Meanwhile, when you sign up for Threads your timeline is nothing but shitty influencers for the first few days, yet somehow they manage to press on through that without getting the vapors or whatever.

I like that I can follow people from my niche hobbies list+pros from the field I want to be active in. Averege users are so jaded and will complain for every network error they encounter. Don't get me wrong, people flock where the action is, they will learn how to do stuff on the fediverse just as they learned fb or other social media. I kinda dread those times, but I refuse to just gatekeep.

I just don't use Mastodon because I never cared for Twitter.

Well, In 10+ years, I've never managed to understand how Twitter works, so I guess there's nowhere to go but up?

They tend to portray everything new, different and/or popular with geeks as bad or complicated, I see this as a rite of passage for the fediverse. Remember when they were shitting on computer gaming in the early days of the hobby because of who it was initially popular among?

I still don't even know what the servers on lemmy are, each "subreddit" is a different server?

Honestly, how hard is it to understand the 'multiple websites working together to sync their contents' part?

To be honest, I'm not tech illiterate and still struggle with Mastodon. I struggle to search/find stuff to follow outside of my local server. I know it's there and doable, but it should be obvious on how to find what I want to follow. If I struggle even a little bit with this, the average casual user, which these platforms will need for long term success, won't even bother.

I haven’t even used Twitter yet. Turns out i don’t have friends. I just like to scroll Reddit.

Its easy to signup & get started, just have to be awake...