• darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    1. Network effect. The people they care about are already in those places. Their family, grandma, a distant part of the family on the other side of the world, their favorite celebrities, people they went to college with, etc.

    2. They don’t know about the fediverse.

    3. They don’t care about privacy or things like an open web or corporate control. They “have nothing to hide” and think it’s pointless to resist corporate enclosure of the internet plus the centralized platforms are free and store their photos for them and take only things they can’t see.

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    The content isn’t as good. I find way more news and discussion on reddit vs here.

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    What makes a social media platform good is, well, socializing, so people are naturally going to flock to where the most people already are. I am only here because I am blocked from r*ddit.

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            Tried that. Didn’t work. I have tried tons of different IPs with different mac addresses and tons of different browsers and even tried signing up entirely in a virtual machine. At best my account will stay up until I start posting and joining subreddits and it can detect who I am based on how I use the site/what I type.

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    From a purely practical standpoint, big platforms have (potential) reach that small ones simply don’t. Sometimes the censorship is so bad it’s hard to make use of that reach, depending on what message you’re trying to do, but nevertheless, it is a factor.