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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 @[email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (11 children)

With all due respect, fuck the normies. The fediverse is better off without them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

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