The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.
Six reasons why I’m not reading this article.
Click bait headline
Doom premise
Random author who has no say on if a platform does or does not succeed
Its impossible for mastodon to “not survive” because it’s decentralized
Its not a hot new thing it’s been around a long time.
I’ve already read a million articles like this that always boil down to “I don’t like this therefore it will fail” or “it’s not exactly like Twitter therefore it will fail” or the one I sympathize but hate hearing is “it’s to hard”
All those reasons boil down to “I don’t feel like learning anything new at this point in my life. If it isn’t easy enough for a toddler I don’t want it.”
The author is basically going like “I registered an E-Mail address and used my usual username. I don’t know which provider I picked, I just picked one in the middle of a list. People can’t seem to find me with just my username! It’s too complicated!”