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 @d6c50095 Not sure if making fun of the voices that find Mastodon too obscure/hard is a good thing :)

As a #mastoadmin, I'm super happy to be here. But not 30% (of my twitter connections have made the jump here, and they invoke the very same reasons without being journalists... 
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Part of that is, journalists during the migrations last year puffed up Mastodon being hard to use, not because it was hard to use, but because it didn't replicate their experience on Twitter on day one

It made me question the reliability of some of the journalists with their other subject

It's like complaining Burger King sucks because the Whopper doesn't fit in a Big Mac box

Journalists, esp tech journalists, have been really hard on Mastodon. Still are
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