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They have released it in beta and people won't just like everyone didn't go to Mastodon. Social media is only as valuable as their users and people won't start
by suddenclarity 4y ago
They have released it in beta and people won't just like everyone didn't go to Mastodon. Social media is only as valuable as their users and people won't start from zero when they have millions of followers on an existing platform. Especially not to a new platform that has to go through all the same issues with hate speech, censorship and other subjective issues that really difficult when you seriously think about them. Look at how Patreon randomly started banning users.
- Laaas 4y agoThe difference is Mastodon is a horrible product. The UX is horrendous, yet a noticeable amount of people still left! That's how bad Twitter is! If Substack has anywhere near a decent product, Twitter will hemorrhage. (FWIW, Mastodons issues aren't inherent, but due to very bad design decisions wrt. federation, crippling it.)
- nebula8804 4y agoMastodon is just following the long standing trend of open source software sucking from a consumer UX perspective. And as all open source trends go...all the techies adopt it but the rest of the mass market does not. Those are your "noticeable amount of people" ie, not really a long term indicator. The journalists/hollywood made a big stink about leaving Twitter but the majority slunk back and even got made fun of by the Elon stans. This network despite Twitters problems is still a huge risk preventing Substack's product from taking off.