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Instances aren’t even the biggest pain point for new users (though it’s certainly a big one as much as people insist that it’s easy for anyone to grasp).

The fact that by signing up to mastodon you don’t even get access to all content (every instance has their own block list and federated content) is a massive sticking point. The decentralized nature of mastodon means that you can’t have one uniform experience across the user base, and that’s a huge hindrance to new adoption because people see social media as central squares where everyone is seeing the same thing, but that can’t happen on mastodon by design.

Also, and I’ll die on this hill: the majority of people do not want chronological feeds that they curate themselves. They like recommendations and automatically curated home feeds with the hot new content tailored for them. Any product that only has chronological feeds is DoA when it comes to mass adoption.

Oh, and don’t even get me started on the fact you lose everything if your instance goes down (I’ve been through it twice, not fun). This is not actually the case with blue sky, funnily enough, since AT Proto was built specifically to detach your identity from the platform/instance you’re on and carry all your content anywhere.

Insisting that mastodon is easy to use for anyone is delusional. Mastodon, by virtue of being federated, requires you to be a much more conscious user than average. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and some people are happy about having this “normie filter”. I also think that anyone can learn to use mastodon if properly taught, but regardless, it is a massive wall for adoption.

It’s not that people aren’t seriously looking for an alternative (bluesky’s increasing popularity proves this), it’s that mastodon is too antithetical to what people want and expect from a modern social media platform. You can argue if it’s good or bad that mastodon is not following the trends of popular social media, but whether you like it or not, not following said trends is what makes it massively unpopular.

At the end of the day, people just want Twitter without the nazis.

Unfortunately I’m inclined to believe this is on purpose to filter out people with self-respect such as yourself.

It’s not just a cost-saving thing (though I’m sure that’s also a factor), it’s a way to make sure the only people who go through with such interviews are those who are very desperate. Because people who are desperate are more willing to subject themselves to poorer work conditions.

But I don’t need to do any of that either. My phone’s settings have a transfer option for eSIMs and it passes the eSIM data to another phone.

No need to interact with the carrier app, no need to interact with the internet, no need to login to anything.

I guess activation times could be a thing but mine is always immediately active so I never noticed it.

So that leads me to my previously stated conclusion: eSIM isn’t the issue, carrier implementation is.

I don’t disagree with using physical either btw, I’m just saying in theory they’re the same. In fact your carrier could just as easily lock down your physical SIM.

This sounds like a your carrier problem, not an eSIM problem.

I’ve swapped eSIMs between devices 3 times this year at my own leisure, no involvement from the carriers, no back and forth calls or visiting a store.

From what I can tell reading these comments, people don’t actually have an issue with eSIM (it’s literally just like your regular SIM card and the spec absolutely allows you to move it between devices with zero friction), they have an issue with how some carriers implement them, in particular how some lock down how you can move an eSIM to a new device.

Seems like carrier implementation should be more standardized.

You’re not the only one, but you are a tiny minority.

Technology Connections did a really good video on this topic specifically, and while you can’t extrapolate his numbers to every channel, seeing that less than 5% of all your views come from people using the subscriptions feed is very telling about how most users operate on platforms like YouTube.

Nobody wants to build their feed anymore. They want an AI/algorithm to do the legwork for them. This is ingrained in modern culture at this point. All the people I know who use any kind of social media site tell me that they just scroll through their home feed and only like stuff or follow creators to improve their home feed recommendations, not to create a dedicated follow feed.

Ignoring the GPU pricing issue, It was a really good option for Mac users to play games that don’t run on MacOS. One of my friends uses it to play with our friend group.

I also used it to play higher end games because my gpu is too weak to reliably play them, but my internet is fast enough to where streaming doesn’t cause any issues. (and I am not interested in paying for a gpu upgrade when I don’t regularly play high end games)

Imo, if you ignore the surrounding context, it’s a great option if you don’t want to pay exorbitant prices for GPUs just to play a modern game.

The real issue is that this problem was artificially manufactured by the companies offering the solution and is guaranteed to enshittify in the name of greed, as seen here.

As per usual, we can’t have nice things because of capitalism.

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Did those people forget this is am open source browser and they can actually check it’s doing what it says it’s doing?

And if they’re that paranoid that they don’t trust the pre-compiled binaries, they can just compile them themselves.

This discussion is completely absurd to me.

The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run.

Well I’m glad you represent everybody.

People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.