Ask Lemmy

My main talking points focus on the lack of personalized feed, no advertising, no one corporation with political motivation is in control of it, clear moderation log, etc.

I think the key is that you have to show them why the platform they’re already using isn’t in their best interest. Why use Lemmy when they already have Reddit? Why use Piefed when they already have Instagram? Most people don’t realize the surveillance social media puts them under or how its personalized feeds manipulate their state of mind.

Until you explain that, it’s hard to give any reason to try anything other than what they’re already used to.

"Lemmy is like Reddit the same way Linux is like windows. Its not really as good, but turbonerds will give you a thousand reasons why its better and you wont really understand."

"Its not filled with wankers and bots yet though so its got that going for it."

Simple.

Just like you introduce Linux!

The amount of gatekeeping I'm seeing here is insane

"people made their own reddit cuz reddit did a ton of bad stuff you remember?" "it's kinda like the united states but there's no federal government and anyone can host a new state. but anyone can talk to each other. confused yet? good!"

'You like reddit? It's like that but the extremists and bots wear their other side* outfits."