Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
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most people won't want to bother learning what an instance is or what federation means.
What have you seen that convinced you of this? Has this been studied?
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I think you need to curate your feeds better. My experience doesn't match yours.
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That isn't a conspiracy theory. That was, in fact, the original plan. Jack Dorsey explicitly stated this from the outset. However, due to reasons (Wikipedia doesn't go into specifics), the project lead decided to make Bluesky independent from Twitter. When Musk bought Twitter, he severed all ties.
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Bluesky is more popular because it has VC money behind it.
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Diaspora, too, but I'm not sure how active that project is nowadays.
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How is that regulated?
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Sort of like how they moved out of Florida and Texas. Repubs want a brain drain for some reason.
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To me the biggest issue with federated platforms is defederation: deliberately breaking interoperability.
Like, imagine if email servers (the original federated network) blocked whole domains as aggressively Mastodon or even Lemmy servers do? It never would have worked.
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Your rant is 100% sensible and/or valid and/or based or whatever one says these days.
If a user wants their own echo chamber, let them cultivate it themselves. The hosts should not decide for them, and the choice to defederate should be based on practical/material/legal concerns only.
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Well, in the sense that it shows you the posts you want to see, like X or many other websites that are based on recommendations
