Exactly! That’s how people usually argue against the Fediverse. People have literally been indoctrinated into believing the internet is centralised.

I jumped over here a couple weeks ago at the request of another redditor and it's like a breath of fresh air.

I still check out reddit for a couple subs that just don't have enough interaction over here "yet".

I've mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it's just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots 🤔

Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate

Personally, I prefer an intellectual barrier to entry. It’s one of the things that made the internet of the early days so much better than today.

I lately have a saying:
"If it's not FOSS, it's not worth your time"

Refugee here. Think I'd agree. A subconscious bias / misunderstanding we bought into

Well said indeed

I would argue it is closer to 60 years.

I'm the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they're not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven't been on discord since.

How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don't think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won't ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn't able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!