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Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@dormi.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

If not Threads, what would you suggest to bring the billions of people who are stuck in legacy social media into the Fediverse?

Why do we need to bring billions of people here again?

[+] rglullis@communick.news -9 points 6 months ago

Because 90% of everything is crap, so the only way to make this better than the alternatives is to have larger absolute numbers and hope that we can find enough of the non-crappy 10%.

I'll be honest with you: the only thing that the Fediverse has over the alternatives is the ethical superiority, but if I were just looking for quality content, this would be the last place I would be looking for.

[-] fcuks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you are after larger numbers of people, why are you here and not on legacy social media where the numbers mean those platforms are better in your opinion?

[-] rglullis@communick.news 9 points 6 months ago

Doesn't "the only thing that the Fediverse has over the alternatives is the ethical superiority" answer that?

I am here because I want it to succeed, not because it has.

[-] fcuks@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Not sure what you mean by ethical superiority? There's some pretty horrible and unethical instances on the fediverse... And I disagree with you that mass numbers of people means success

[-] rglullis@communick.news 11 points 6 months ago

I am talking about the ethos of open source and decentralized systems, not the general ethics or the values of particular people or instances that are here.

mass numbers of people means success

It's not so much about "attracting mass numbers of people", but becoming more than just a point for fringe groups. IOW, can we make it minimally interesting for normies? Can we go beyond the "techie/anime-manga/pretentious college student/socially awkward/neurodivergent" demographic? Could we perhaps make the Fediverse a place that can be attractive for, e.g, photographers? Car Enthusiasts? Fashionistas? Wood workers? Amateur triathletes?

IMO, reddit's value was never in the large communities. Aside from /r/soccer, none of the subreddits I joined had more than 500k subscribers. But the thing is: the reason that Reddit managed to have so many interesting communities in the long tail was because they managed to attract such a large number of people that even those in far tail end could still find like-minded people.