Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.

With that hair he could pass for a hobbit.

Dildo Baggins, CEO of Meta

That’s not why. It’s more like FOMO.

They don’t want to be the one left behind because they didn’t jump on the latest hype train. If AI hype fizzles, most of these companies will just carry on like it wasn’t a thing or it’ll get incorporated in a more modest form and called something else.

The same thing happened with crypto/nft/blockchain. There’s a few still trying to milk that cow but most who tried just turned and left it.