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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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[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

The reason I personally don't recommend or hardly even mention Lemmy to anyone else is because here's hardly any content they'd be interested in. The vast majority of posts are quite esoteric and directed at the kind of people who already are here.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

Did you have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world ? There are threads with different topics with active communities.

Discoverability of smaller communities is definitely an issue we are trying to solve with this.

this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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