When I talked about it on lemmy most people had a lot of negative impressions of the user base. Additionally and I myself felt this way, a lot of folks felt like mastodon was already succeeding, why have yet another piece of software doing the same thing.
I think the idea that it's relay based is splitting hairs for people, even the people that are willing to try new platforms.
I'll add that while I'm not dymetrically opposed to crypto currencies. Most people are. Because they're ponsche schemes, and some idiot decided to brand it web3 where web 2.0 was Html 5 and CSS 3, and web 3 fundamentally requires money to be transacted over the network.
Who wants to spend money every time they do something? In any case they wanted web 3 to be the brand, now we're stuck with it for better or worse with all the scams on the brand included.
