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> to them, the culture of ban-dodging is preferable to a culture of abandoning these services.

Yeah, I like that it's impossible to actually kill this, it can't turn into something else by fiat, etc. I'll jump to something like that.

> I'm not trying to convince you to solve the problem, I'm trying to convince you that it actually is one, that it's not in my head, that it's not just one limited to my personal hobbies.

I believe I acknowledged that weeks ago, but painting a more narrow image of fedi than exists is not any more useful. It's not just people that do computer science; I'd be *elated* if that was fedi.

> I have this theory that the network effect is a big part of it,

We're on the left side of the adoption curve, sure. There's also a resistance to tacking on yet another username and password to log into yet another account on yet another service. I hate doing it.

> Evidence for this theory:

Most of the people on Poast during its first year already knew who graf was, and they're just short of 2^17 accounts now.
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