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submitted 1 month 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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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. Stop calling it “the fediverse”
[-] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

It's already happening.

People say Lemmy when they mean the link aggregator part of the Fediverse.

People say Mastodon when they mean the microblogging part.

And really okay, at least people get it: one name, one concept

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Every time I hear Fediverse I imagine a universe full of nothing but different versions of Kevin Federline.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It sounds like a furry cinematic universe

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