Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?

[–] Jeffool 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It gives space to do servers based on specific interests if you want. I'm part of a game development server, and my "Local" tab has people on my server often talking about, and showing, things that are related to game development. And I can still follow anyone from any other Mastodon server too.

If you're into video games, film, maybe a specific genre of music, you can have an instance dedicated to that. (It might already exist.) It's like a virtual neighborhood, or forum. Remember forums? Those were nice. They cultivated a sense of community which made people a little more responsible in their attitudes, it feels like. Maybe that's just nostalgia, but I like the server I'm on. It's got friendly people I can talk to without feeling the need to fill my follows with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes! I'm on a local regional server that is nice. I like that it's locally owned and operated, and we can talk local news and events.

[–] Jeffool 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You know, that feels like a pretty great use case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I should have made the obligatory link to http://mastodon-near.me/

[–] Jeffool 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks a lot!

[–] Maalus 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh so just like Discord, why would I need something new, I already have Discord.

[–] Jeffool 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, but with that philosophy, why use a microblogging system at all?

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