@nelson I'll try to answer you specifically.> I agree with this point, but also, why make anything then? why make new tools and new technology if it's not going to have the same amount of users right away? I dislike this line of thinking.Creating new things is important, but it's naive to think they can spread just because they're new or because they work well.Technological creativity and the diffusion of a technology are like the processes of genetic diversification leading to speciation: the latter is a fortuitous event made possible by the former.>. I really do not want people to keep trying to monetize social networkingI'm not talking about monetization as a goal, but about funding to make a platform's advertising sustainable (and accelerate its diffusion).> Plus, you're factually wrong, Jack Dorsey actuallyDorsey was the giant planetary mass that made Bluesky's gravitational slingshot possible. Without Dorsey, Bluesky would have fewer users than Minds.> The Zot protocol looks absolutely awesome, I want to read more about it!libera.site/help/developer/zot…> Now that I think about it, the main issue with ActivityPub and Zot is that both of those protocols failed to be sold to the people, more than to investors.The "protocol" is not a necessary component of a social network, but only of a decentralized platform. It's not the protocols or philosophies that need to convince the public, but the products: frontends and apps.> and to this day, no regular person can really decypher what the word "Fediverse" means without having actually read the theory on how the protocol works, a fatal flaw in my opinionIt's not a flaw in the Fediverse, but it's a flaw in the so-called Fediverse evangelists...> The moment you say "server" to a regular person, it's the exact moment they completely lose the thread.Very true!> That's simply not something you see happen on bluesky at all! people just think of it... as the app you install and use.I'm not surprised: having a lot of money allows you to produce good corporate communications.
