>If it doesn't have enough of the utility, performance, and positive UX, it will never gain enough market share to matter.

That's part of why billionaires will continue to screw people over. They will try and stay in bed with the familiar evil, rather than put up with the temporary inconvenience of freedom.

And it's a negative spiral. Less users means less money to bring in staff which means less means to improve. Discord didn't become discord in a month, but other competitiors don't get that grace period.

I was able to get setup with Stoat but it took hours for the verification email.

My verification emails never showed up from Stoat or Root.

Mine took 6 hours on Stoat.