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?

  • BlazeEnglish
    10·
    11 days ago

    if you don’t care enough about decentralization to lose out of a lot of content, theres literally no reason to be here.

    Officially supported clients which are not the Reddit app

    • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      This was one of the reasons I left, and I assumed most disliked the official app, but weren’t willing to part with the content.

      Now, I think I was too close minded. Stuck in my bubble. If it’s not in a discussion about reddit sucking, chances are people don’t care that much.

      App sucks? Didn’t think about that, it’s just an app. App really sucks? Whatever, they already use 5 other apps that are worse.

      The medium shapes the experience, but isn’t an experience unto itself. Not that important to the average person.