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      I think people are intimidated by step 3. Don’t ask me why, but for a certain type of web user, it’s an absolute deal breaker for some reason.

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        Tbh it’s capitalism. It teaches people to be afraid of choices, and to just take what the corporation is handing them. It’s… disconcerting how pervasive this kind of convenience culture has become and what kind of effect it’s having on people’s lives

        Fedi doesn’t have an onboarding problem, people have a capitalism problem

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          that is an interesting point. when people are confronted with the choice of where to store their data, they just nope out

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          I don’t think it’s explicitly an issue with capitalism itself (although capitalism does use it to it’s advantage). Decision Paralysis is well-known, and i don’t see why abolishing capitalism would make it universally easier to make uninformed decisions

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        Yeah, having to actually choose a place to go was the main impediment for meto create a mastodon account in the first place. I kept stalling and putting it off, once I did it iwas easy enough. I think a lot of people don’t realise at first you can make other fedaration accounts with the same email and how easy it is.

        Except I’m I was not a big twitter user in the first place, so I probably should have started with one of the niche feds first, like star trek or the art one, those would prompt me to interact more.