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@thomasfuchs People choose grocery stores. People choose streaming services. People understand choices.
I don't think the problem is choice or choosing. It's the fact that it's different from corporate social media that is controlled and managed by a single entity.
Like email -- and people don't have a problem with email.
Not having to choose an instance means only having one instance, and I don't want corporate social media anymore.
@mshiltonj @thomasfuchs Most people don't choose their email host. They pick the default.
For like twenty years, tons of people exclusively used their ISP-, school-, and/or work-assigned email accounts. Some people went to popular free web hosts like Yahoo or Hotmail with whatever features or word of mouth at the time.
For maybe fifteen years now, Gmail has been the default choice. For many users, it's literally synonymous with email.
Users don't want to think.
@JBB @mshiltonj @thomasfuchs before the thinking, one needs to take the time to find out what are ones options, what is out there, how does one server differ from another, etc. etc. So it’s easier to just go with the dominant one - whether that is gmail, Amazon or …
@mshiltonj @thomasfuchs yes, but I know what groceries are and how to choose (the closest one) . Last time I had to choose a social media server I ended up on irc.homelien.no pre Y2K
1) if people didn’t have to choose a grocery store, they wouldn’t. And if they didn’t have to choose an e-mail provider, they wouldn’t (indeed, many just default to whatever their ISP offers, Gmail, etc. — hardly anyone researches multiple).
2) it’s UI friction. If there’s too much of it, people will simply not join at all.
Why are you on mastodon?