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> It's anecdotal, but I think Mastodon missed the boat, in large part because of the pretty terrible sign up experience. It "missed the boat" by not predating
by paulddraper 3y ago
> It's anecdotal, but I think Mastodon missed the boat, in large part because of the pretty terrible sign up experience.
It "missed the boat" by not predating Twitter.
Why did Google+ fail? Bad sign-up experience? Incomplete features? Buggy? No, of course not. It failed because it didn't predate Facebook.
- Ensorceled 3y ago> It "missed the boat" by not predating Twitter. Threads predated Twitter? > Why did Google+ fail? It was a bad copy of Facebook where the product was designed to herd/drive people to Google services and not actually provide a usable social network.
- paulddraper 3y agoThreads is an experience offered by an existing social platform. Obviously different. (And yes, you could argue Youtube -> Google+, but no.)