My only use for Twitter was the mainstream stuff like service updates, official announcements, and sports reporting. Mastadon is never going to be mainstream. Mastadon will always have instances without meta for the whatever the fuck else you'd use it for now.
You can make the most user friendly website ever but nobody is going to use it if it doesn't have the content they like, and "All the same content with no ads and an app with more privacy" is a pretty easy sell.
My only use for Twitter was the mainstream stuff like service updates, official announcements, and sports reporting. Mastadon is never going to be mainstream. Mastadon will always have instances without meta for the whatever the fuck else you'd use it for now.
You can make the most user friendly website ever but nobody is going to use it if it doesn't have the content they like, and "All the same content with no ads and an app with more privacy" is a pretty easy sell.