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It’s a social network. Do you expect Facebook or Twitter to be your primary content database?

But I do agree UX could and should be better

I think most people expect their Facebook and Twitter posts to be around in 5 years.

I don’t. It’s naive to believe any social network is in it for the long haul. Too many have failed to believe they won’t as well. Particularly, exitter.

It’s best to assume anything you don’t host yourself is ephemeral.

And yet, I have Facebook posts that will be 20 years old next year. The attitude that “I’m distrusting of social media, therefore this major adoption blocker is fine as it exists” is why only techies have managed to adopt Mastodon, and is why that will be the limits of its adoption.

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