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Yeah. Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with "X software is better than Y software." Reddit's software wasn't really that good, ActivityPub is kind of a janky protocol; it's fine. The main success hinges on who's on the network and the quality of the interactions to be had there.
Literally this. Most social networks are just less-featured versions of Facebook.
Twitter was originally Facebook with no media posts and character limits. And kind of cool that you could SMS it, but hands down just worse software that ended up taking off.
Instagram was originally Facebook but images only. Then they added video. It's just less software, but also took off.
Snapchat was Facebook but you could only send pics/video and only directly to friends. And they just removed persistence so all your shit gets deleted. Literally just missing timelines and comments. Blatantly worse software. Popular as fuck, especially with zoomers.
Social media has never been about better software. Arguably Google+ had the best software in many ways (probably the most feature rich, but UI was objectively a problem), it's fucking dead. Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.
Or maybe, just as with creative endeavors in general, limitations do more to focus and define a social network than to bind it.