I read something recently that gave me food for thought. An alternative has to be 10x better for people to switch; and the core experience is what convinces people, not cool extra features.
I don't know how universally applicable it is, but I wonder how Mastodon stacks up in that. Personally I think it's 10x better, but is it really? Or more importantly, are we communicating clearly that it is?
@Gargron This depends so heavily on what people want their 'better' to be, and I honestly think the problem is that most folk haven't given it any thought, so there's no way for anything _to be_ 10x better, since "better" was never defined.
@emsenn @Gargron It seems like this is a case of making a qualitative judgement in hindsight: “people switched from X to Y because its core experience is 10x better” but in my humble opinion I feel that it all comes down to intangible factors, that are hard to control. The best we can do as a community is keep on promoting the stuff until the stars align. And who knows, perhaps the alignment is not that far away into the future..