Lazycog

It’s also about the barrier of entry. Discord has a barrier, but it is not high. The fact that this platform is their commercial product ensures that issues are minimal (well…). For non tech-savvy people and those who don’t have time / don’t want to put in time to troubleshoot and figure things out this is the reason they go for these commercial solutions.

Just my observations from trying to switch friends and family over to free open source alternatives. It was a huge hassle to even get people to try out and move to signal, but signal has lowered the barrier quite a bit and now it’s stable (was not always as fast and stable as now).

Seems like it worked for me. Last I checked my deleted account’s comments are still up and display replaced text.

I overwrote my comments with a message that clearly states why I overwrote my comments and deleted my account.

You are right, already quite happy about the fediverse, can’t wait to see where this goes!

Good point. I keep forgetting that not everyone just moved here during the protests.

Wait. Why are the memes about the blackout better on twitter than here?! Or have I just not found the good communities for those kind of memes?