This is it. The big appeal of twitter is that it has actual big names on it, that it has specific creatives and journalists, and media insiders, and etc.

You’re a big wrestling fan who enjoys seeing tweets from wrestlers and their stupid kayfab beefs and such and then you jump onto mastodon and get pretty much nothing but linux nerds.

The search and connectivity is also way harder to do because of how individual focused it is especially during the attempted migration. If I want to follow funny comedian from podcast I like and we’re at far off instances it might be hard. My instance might not update their stuff as often or I might not find them period or I have to use a third party browser extension or take to google and etc.

Compared to a reddit/messageboard replacement. If I want to look up gaming discussion I click community, search, and gaming. Boom. Various federated gaming subs. I can sub to multiples and it doesnt really matter that usernameX didnt make the leap because usernamey did and theyre happy to discuss things.