Yeah not having stories is a huge shortcoming.
pixelswarm
joined 1 month ago
The retention is bad because the new user experience is abysmal. It takes a lot of effort, even for a tech savvy user to get Lemmy & Mastodon to a usable state. Most people are not going to do that and will churn out when there's no interesting content and the app does weird things like shows you the same posts over and over, if you don't manually change settings for things like "hide read posts" in Voyager.
This quote seemed pretty illumative of the MAGA rush, "It felt freeing, empowering, though perhaps in the same way that bullying someone does when you’re in middle school." I think MAGAs are very insecure people deep down, like bullies in a school yard. I can imagine them feeling important being able to assert their asinine (and hateful) opinions.
People want transient videos that don't stay in the gallery.