Well, every instance has different mix of people interest and moderation. Which maybe I was over thinking it but it took a while to figure out where I wanted to be. And my initial experience wasn’t great. My server was way out of date, had caching issues, was slow lots of defederation and perhaps arbitrary blocking that I didn’t know was going on so I didn’t understand why it didn’t work.

I gave up and came back to a different server and it’s been good since. But, no one is switching from threads or Instagram for that experience. Or at least going to stick with it long enough to find a home.

I’ve built a place I find comfortable, took a couple tries. But I have found decent content, found some of my friends from twitter, found replication bots for people I used to follow but not really interact with.

It’s not twitter, but it took me 5+ years to build out my twitter. I think over time, enough people will join defederated social media that it can be a pretty good experience if a little too much work for many. But it will take a little time.

There’s a vast majority of the population that doesn’t care.

Because even for me, a full time systems coder, just figuring out what server to join was a pain, I had to try 3/4 time before I felt like I had enough info to make the correct choice, and then finding other users from my previous twitter gang was a pain, the barrier to entry is much higher than some other options.

No, he always wanted it to be wechat but misses the fact that its basically required for Chinese citizens to use.

Lol, he wants it to be wechat but forgets that everyone uses it because its a government sanctioned monopoly.

No one wants a dating/chat/payment/microbloging/uber app.

Link your ride data to your dating profile? What could go wrong you fucking donkey.

I work for a security company so they have strong opinions in the various custom ROMs. Most of the security so they make an exception for it as long as its not rooted.

I’m running a 7a, would have liked to go to an 8a (or something with a headphone jack) but my company will drop me from email/work apps after end of security updates.

I went with 7a because it runs grapheneeOS without issue and allows my to sandbox play services a little which I need for work but don’t want to just let them run wild.

So far so good.

Additionally, ordering from other sites was a gamble a few years ago. Now its a well mapped path and its pretty painless.

Taking a play from the budlight playbook.

This is crazy to me because a refurb unit is tested every time.

The don’t test every device off the line, but when someone hands them a watch and says,’ I broke this’. They actually go through a whole test suite to validate that it’s been fixed and works properly.

No beeper runs the matrix bridges for you.

Been having good luck with graphineos but you really need a pixel since they don’t really support anything else.

Using beeper these days for the iMessage team and down to one phone.