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@stroughtonsmith

The more this goes on and the more we see mis information and discriminatory behaviour spread on these platforms, fully condoned by the leadership, the less peoples excuses for staying on X, Meta etc hold weight.

The two main reasons people stay on there are:

Keep in touch with friends / family
There are groups people follow
There arae companies people follow

The old reason would be 'no one uses fedi' this is not really that vaild.

I was chatting to someone yesterday, I don't think they use facebook itself BUT they do use it to login to different websites, so that single sign on (SSO) feature is just another form of vendor lock in.

I think Messenger is more popular, again owned by Meta / Facebook,

So a reason for people to stay on could be the latter two there, being tied in to a single login and also messenge.

So the barrier to leaving central social media is more how we consume news and information. I think a lot of people under 30 get their news via TikTok for example.