Technology

I've never used Twitter so take this with a grain of salt, but supposedly it really is more difficult to connect to the people that you want to follow, when they all split up and go their separate ways on different instances, and especially when they decide that they will remain inside the walled garden. To be clear, if the people that you want to "follow" are using Twitter, then you also must use Twitter if you want to view their content, and all the more so if you want to interact back with them.

And now we'll see similarly with Reddit too I imagine: if the vast majority of the community remains there, so like official announcements are only given to the Reddit community (hehe, not Minecraft though:-P), then you would need to keep a Reddit account unless you are okay with just walking away from it all entirely.

So there really is a significant cost to leaving, depending on what you are trying to do. It reminds me of the situation with Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux, where nobody likes how heavy-handed The Man is being, but it's such an enormous cost to try to do anything else - like when the entire city of Munich Germany decided to leave Windows and go to open-source Linux, but got too frustrated with all the crashing and unreliability, so then decided to go back to Windows again. Nowadays they reportedly run both side-by-side, and while I'm sure there are all sorts of "details" involved in all of that back-and-forth switching, the end point remains: if everyone else does one thing, it is much harder to have to blaze your own trail.