@rolle Erin Kissane did a survey of former users and of non-users and they cited it as a top reason, alongside the difficulty of choosing an instance, janky interface for interacting across instances, and a combo of mods and early adopters haranguing them about norms that were alien to them (e.g. putting stories of other people being racist to them behind CWs).
@rolle@Alon maybe not for 2017 fedi-users, but for all that look for a birdsite-replacement it is. It’s the only search on any online platform that actually worked for getting relevant results for near-realtime events.
Gregory's Server
@rolle Erin Kissane did a survey of former users and of non-users and they cited it as a top reason, alongside the difficulty of choosing an instance, janky interface for interacting across instances, and a combo of mods and early adopters haranguing them about norms that were alien to them (e.g. putting stories of other people being racist to them behind CWs).