If you follow the topics that are most prevalent on the fedi (eg freedom, activism, technology, diversity) you will not run out unless you scroll for many hours a day, which is suggests you find yourself a hobby.

Also, the self fulfilling prophecy of „the fediverse is too small, I go to big platform“ will keep the fediverse small.

Be the change you want to see.

[–] SquiffSquiff 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel this and some of the other comments in this thread are missing the point. It's not about me and my followers. It's about the news sources and topics that I search for or follow. They simply haven't moved to Mastodon and where notable individuals that I follow have tried, it simply hasn't worked out due to lack of interest. I'm not interested in the fediverse as a topic in itself, I'm interested in the topics and events I want to follow. Something happens and I can find and read and watch clips about it on Twitter. Not so Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Bluesky is probably going to capture more of that than Mastodon. But threads is similarly struggling to develop it as well and they have very low barrier for new signups for anyone with a Facebook or Instagram account.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are missing the point.

If lucifer was the only one having ice cream and you wanted ice cream, you would have to either go to lucifer or make your own (or ask someone to do it for you).

This is what the fediverse is about. Regaining control of our media. Your point that it is in any way too lacking to join or invest time into is self defeating as you and many others are needed to get it to that point.

So I‘m saying either accept that your work is needed to get any non billionaire owned/non corporate platform to work or stop pretending you care about your data.

[–] JubilantJaguar 5 points 2 months ago

You're both right.

If there aren't people building this alternative, in their free time, for free, then it won't exist. Fair enough. Much credit to them.

But it looks like @[email protected] is just an ordinary user with a busy life who wants to consume content in a way that better respects their privacy and autonomy. That is also a fair demand. Not everyone needs to be a producer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

freedom, activism, technology, diversity

Boring, boring, boring, boring. This is all "meta-converaation", like this exact thread.

Where are the musicians, the woodworkers, the DIYers, the athletes, the architects, the photographers, the wannabe chefs, the contrarian educators who do not toe the line of Academia?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

[email protected] for other communities suggestions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Come on, you know that I'm talking about the people...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

People post to the communities.

With this comment I was bringing them visibility, which is usually an issue.

On the side I keep promoting Lemmy on /r/Redditalternatives

Once we'll get more people, and they'll know where to find content, we'll be able to solve that issue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to make Mastodon propaganda, but Mastodon talks around technology are much better than Twitter ever was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hard disagree. It's true that the tech conversation has shifted away from Twitter post-Musk, but to claim that Mastodon nowadays Mastodon is better than ever was is just wishful thinking.

[–] AchtungDrempels 2 points 2 months ago

Totally agree. But i don't know if there is any hope, so many fedi people seem to not want any normies (people not working with computers i guess) entering.