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>And then actually use them

That is the main issue. I am on mastodon but following someone on another instance of mastodon is not easy for "regular people". Until that is solved people will stick to items like twitter and meta.

AFAIK, most people on Bluesky are on the "main" instance, so that tends to end up being a centralized community which can suffer from the same issues.

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Mastodon has a serious discovery problem. IIRC, searches are only within your own instance, except for hashtag searches. This appears to have been an intentional design decision to prevent brigading / pile-ons.

For me, I found it too difficult to locate "my peeps" on other instances, so I switched to Bluesky.

I like it for my use case. It's more like the community around forum instances in the old days. The internet is too big.

I found it to be an absolute chore to find people that I had been following on Twitter.

Ah, I never used twitter.

Bluesky isn't allowed in Texas without verifying your age with Kids Web Services (KWS). X doesn't have that requirement.

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