I think you wildly misunderstand the average person’s motivations and how they weigh decisions.

The server selection problem goes away if people stop treating their hosting website as an after thought or dumb terminal. People really have to stop promoting web server software as if it’s a platform, and start finding reasons to recommend actual websites to people.

Ain’t nobody ever recommended phpBB to anyone who wasn’t looking to host a forum.

You have misread their comment and understood it backwards. AP’s saying people on Mastodon are engaging in Lemmy discussions.

There is no way to follow Mastodon users from Lemmy. Lemmy simply does not work that way.

You could spin one up this evening if you wanted. Or go use catodon.social.

That’s not the point. The point is, there are reasons Mastodon is being rejected, just like there are reasons you seemingly cannot pay people to use a Misskey-based or Hubzilla-based website.

It’s not where the people are going, and the public or semi-public figures are going to follow the people.

Why switch to Mastodon when there is Misskey?

Why use Misskey when there is Hubzilla?