Mastodon needs to be more user-friendly, or people will just continue going to the platforms supported by billionaires, despite evidence from Twitter and Facebook that those platforms aren’t great.

I want to like Mastodon, but it seems like work.

@MitchW This has big "Linux needs to be more like Windows or people will just continue using Windows" echoes.

I mean, yeah, but ... the thing is, even *if* Mastodon's devs and larger community *wanted* to Be More Like Twitter(TM), where's the $$ going to come from?

When do users bear some responsibility for not going with short term convenient evil vs. long term good?

@MitchW To put it another way, why is it always Somebody Else's Problem to bridge the gap?

It's always "Somebody Should" and never "here's what I will do to bring about what I want to see in the world."