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submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

This is a follow-up from my previous thread.

The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon.

The reasons, summarised by @noodlejetski@lemm.ee are:

  1. marketing
  2. not having to pick the instance when registering
  3. people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
  4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
  5. marketing

and I'm saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer.

Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this.

How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?

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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 2 months ago

We all love bashing out less techie friends but dunking on them is counter productive!

Like it or not they make the main/lame stream. We need fedi to go mainstream to deny corpo trash profits.

Like it or not, normies must be onboarded!

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

but once there is a big pond with a lot of fish, there will be sharks.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 months ago

bots, feds and shills will always fall a school of fish for hunting :/

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

We need fedi to go mainstream to deny corpo trash profits.

Why? Who cares if we don't have to interact with them? Becoming mainstream was the downfall of Reddit.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago

If you don't forge your own destiny, then somebody will do it for you aka reddit.

Reddit failed due to governance and centralization issue. Not BC it was mainstream IMHO

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

You don't think the massive amount of repetitive jokes and reposts and overall shitty attention whoring content was a problem on Reddit?

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 months ago

I would posit that the main/lame stream is not the actor doing that shit but rather that their presence attracts bad faith actors.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

So we're still better off without them.

this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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