Agreed. Interpersonal relationships are stronger bonds then us tech dudes (myself included) tend to appreciate.
People are still on Facebook despite all their unacceptable actions over the years, because the alternative is to completely uproot your whole social circle (everyone all at once, good luck with that) or seriously risk cutting off people you care about.
Almost the same applies to Furs still on Telegram, though afaik TG hasn’t ever done anything remotely as bad as Zuck, Elon or Spez
EDIT: sidestepping the uprooting part is what’s fantastic about the Fediverse btw; compat and futureproofing between diff websites being a must-have from the start, and that’s awesome <3
From a “don’t care” position, Elon is probably the only one who has impacted them. For Spez a majority of users probably just use the desktop site, or official app and would be more annoyed with the mods impacting their experience than Spez for making changes. Zuck did a bunch of behind the scenes manipulations, but again the don’t cares wouldn’t have noticed.
The fediverse itself might be resistant to overall control, but you are still tied to an instance, so a rouge admin, or some spam in activity pub could still cause uprooting.
