What I meant behind federation was that the registration process can be hard to understand. But you’re right, after passing this step, you don’t really notice federation.

As for the self fulfilling prophecy, I think you’re right, which is why I still try to nudge my friends towards mastodon / pixelfed. I still believe in these projects, but I also don’t think Bluesky will be too detrimental to their growth.

I used to think so too, but talking about it with a few friends that genuinely gave Mastodon a shot, I changed my mind.

Federation (not easily understandable) + Lack of users (and thus content) are the main reasons.

Maybe OP isn’t properly informed of the energy usage and climate impact of his lifestyle. Some countries do very little to teach this unfortunately.

In France, a few years ago, there was a very large campaign for this exact topic to prevent energy usage spikes that could have brought the grid down. It also served as a way to teach people that 19 is just fine in the winter.

In winter it’s a very normal thing to be a little cold. If every household on the planet aimed for 26 while it’s 0 outside, the energy needed would to heat up would be gigantic.

As someone else said, you just need some warm clothes and socks and you’re fine at 19 degrees.

Edit : not a parent, so I don’t know if it’d fine for children

Since the barriers of entry on mastodon are too high for mainstream users, Bluesky is probably a good thing imo.