Over the past year these are the top arguments against the Fediverse:
Too left wing
Too difficult
Not enough people
Not enough mutuals
Too nerdy / too niche
Too confusing
Too ugly
Too many different options and apps
Too many servers
Not owned by a corporation (yes, really, one person told me he prefers an oligarch)
There is no algorithm
Hard to discover people
Many of these are based on the attitude and feeling, but there is some truth to it, for example discoverability is still a bit of an issue. I personally find most of the Fediverse web UIs clunky considering the big world standards, but I’m sure they will get better over time.
@rolle i think this crusade that so many on here have joined is a fruitless one. i think if we all just chilled out on here, ppl would start showing up. like, part of the issue of the fediverse is that half of the convos on here are about the fediverse or how we get more people to join.
if 30 ppl were all standing outside of a bar shouting about how great it is in there, would any of us believe them?
