>as convenient and simple as the centralized ones I don't think that's sufficient. Take Mastodon for instance. The user count surged recently, demonstrating th

>as convenient and simple as the centralized ones I don't think that's sufficient. Take Mastodon for instance. The user count surged recently, demonstrating that it's not actually difficult to adopt or use as a Twitter alternative. But people tend to prefer algorithmically-driven social media that's optimized not to give them agency, but to be maximally attention-grabbing and sticky. The centralized and profit-motivated product is worse in the sense that it wastes more of the user's time and makes seeing the things they've explicitly followed more difficult, but that particular kind of "worse" by design is more popular. I don't really have a solution to propose here, just want to point out that sometimes the worse option wins by virtue of being worse, so being "as convenient and simple", or even being better is not always enough to attract people.