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People prefer to drown than pick option which is not corporate bullshit. Bluesky won because it's centralized, and people don't have to decide over instance.
Why are you on Lemmy? Or, why do you think the decentralised model works here, but not on mastodon?
Or is it only working because there is no third party VC-backed reddit clone?
Lemmy is barely a thing. Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
People do prefer centralized platforms with shiny front-faces and easy-to-navigate corporate bullshit. The reason why that stuff is so successful is because it works.
People fled to Bluesky because advertisers moved to Bluesky.
There's no ads on bsky tho D:
There are brands moving there, that's how a place starts generating value or the perception of value. I saw the same shit happen with twitter and reddit back in the day, this is just the same cycle repeating.
Maybe, but for now the culture is extremely hostile to *brands*. They successfully bullied Adobe inc off the site