A lot of people kept trying to tell me Discord was the new Reddit and a new ultimate messenger type software. I tried it a bit and found it lacking on both sides.

Perhaps it will swallow the rest of the world, but I’m happy with Lemmy and other messengers.

I’ll give it another go from time to time

Edit: grammar

Holy crap, now I can’t sleep after seeing this :-/

Not really, no. I said I informed myself about alternatives to Reddit (as an example) and then dropped it and moved to Lemmy.

I said jumping ship for King may be hard for various possible reasons which I was trying to guess (and don't pretend to know).

Mastodon is further along than Lemmy is, so I hope Stephen King can move there soon, but it might still take time.

If you have an X account (I never used Twitter/X), you can write King to let him know about Mastodon

Let's hope it resists!

It's not easy to jump ship (because of the network effect) and possibly not being tech savvy enough to know where to land.

I jumped ship from Reddit this year after reading some posts about alternatives. I tried Tildes too, which I found interesting, but more of an experiment, than a substitute.

King (and others like him) may not know alternatives exist and can work just as easily.

Also, even if King knew of Mastodon, maybe his fans wouldn't jump ship too even if he had said he's moving there

It's complicated

He was Bankman, now he's Fried