fedi and platforms are different environments, but one is made to look like the other and draw on familiarity with what came before it. at some point fedi has the qualities of imitation meat -- perhaps ethically superior to real meat, but people like real meat, whereas imitation meat just ends up being a weird uncanny valley when you consume it, and the experience isn't very good; you get the sense that going vegetarian would be less frustrating if you just made a proper salad bowl or something.