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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don't care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow.

Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default.