@AstroKatie I believe that two are related. People super exaggerate their difficulties using Mastodon and a whole lot of people are turned off by that. It’s not merely having to move to a whole new platform that’s the issue. I get that is totally annoying too. It’s that the old familiar platform allowed people to buy captive audiences and it was familiar to them.

@AstroKatie I don’t buy most complaints about Mastodon. Usually, people are either vague and say its too hard for some such and such reason.
If you are an established science communicator with resources; respectfully, you can have your own instance and yes people will see your content. It is not hard to control your presence on Mastodon.
I think a lot of this boils down to privileges that were taken for granted on other centralized social media platforms.

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