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 @[email protected] are:

marketing

not having to pick the instance when registering

people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining

algorithms helping discover people and content to follow

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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[–] Usernameblankface 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't.

I like what this is, I don't want it to become everything for everyone

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed. Look what Reddit turned into. Better to have fewer but higher quality comments than a sea of the same tired jokes and ancedotes over an over again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I don't like that there's so few people questioning the core concept of "one platform for everyone".

Why does it have to appeal to everyone? Why can't its audience be a subset of humanity who like nerdy shit? It's what I liked about Reddit in the early years - it wasn't completely inaccessible but it was niche enough that there was a bit of a filter, allowing me to find content and people that appealed to me.

Aiming for lowest common denominator doesn't seem like a good idea to me.