If I wasn't on Lemmy, I wouldn't even know about Mastodon. It's not really something you hear of outside of the fediverse, in my experience. Meanwhile, BlueSky is gaining traction and talked about everywhere. Most people don't care that it's not exactly decentralized. Most of the things the users on the fediverse care about are not things the average, not-very-tech-saavy person cares about.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

Bluesky has a good new user experience, too. Even if you do know about Mastodon, making an account is like"Welcome - figure it out, lol"

I'd bet if they went the other way, they'd get significantly fewer people signing up for the service...Steam caters to both nerds and casuals alike

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I really enjoy Mastodon, but it seems to be too confusing with all the servers. I don’t know why, but maybe because people have been conditioned by big tech to use centralised services. Especially Gen Z that grew up with this very big tech controlled internet.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Especially Gen Z that grew up with this very big tech controlled internet.

Yep, I only 3 person IRL who know and uses Forum or Reddit.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Reddit is big tech these days.

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

They could just put their own instance alive,
not very hard for them, after they shown us what they can do,
They can make the changes happen, they showed us already.

And thoses who wants the feed, just have to subscribe.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 hours ago

Valve ceo built a billion dollars mega yacht fleet off selling proprietary games through a proprietary third party launcher. A free and open source decentralized platform does not appeal to them for obvious reasons.