While I tend to support there being open social alternatives, I haven’t really seen the people behind them talk about the most important aspect: how will you at

While I tend to support there being open social alternatives, I haven’t really seen the people behind them talk about the most important aspect: how will you attract and retain users? There has to be more to the value proposition than “it’s open”. The vast majority of users simply do not care about this. They want to be where their friends, family, and favorite content creators are. They want innovation in both content and format. Until the well intentioned people behind these various open web platforms and non-platforms internalize and act on these realities, the whole enterprise is doomed to be a niche movement that will eventually go out with a whimper.