@Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) Three reasons.

One, you can't move from Mastodon to any other Fediverse project with all your content, all your posts, all your settings, all your connections just like so, just like you can move from Hubzilla to (streams).

Two, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project with full, extensive, guaranteed iOS app support. Most "Fediverse" apps are built against Mastodon first and foremost or against Mastodon only. And almost everyone on Mastodon is on phones, mostly iPhones.

Three, coming from Twitter and adapting to Mastodon was hard enough already, and some still haven't recovered from that. You can't expect them to move and learn something new again.

And thus, everyone stays on Mastodon, waiting for features that are perfectly standard pretty much everywhere else to be introduced to their home instance.

And I'm not even counting those who aren't aware what the rest of the Fediverse can do. Or those who simply don't know that there is such a rest of the Fediverse because they think the Fediverse is only Mastodon.

CC: @John Lusk

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