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Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There really needs to be a better examples and instructions to join mastodon / fediverse. I can see the confusion. Maybe just a default server specified by the primary developer

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

I feel like those were somewhat easy to find (but not explicitly stated).

  • Lemmy.world for Lemmy
  • Kbin.social for Kbin
  • Mastodon.social for Mastodon

Once people are in there then we start talking up moving to and instance that fits their style. Kind of like picking a fighter character then picking a specialization at level 2. That's still a hard sell on Lemmy and Kbin where we don't have the account export/import/redirect tools that Mastodon has. I could see them coming pretty soon though.

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

That's a good point. I didn't have any issues but I have heard of others and the article mentioned it

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

I agree completely. We really need to make onboarding to the fediverse as painless as possible. If there's a barrier to entry the general audience will gravitate towards tech savvy folks. That's cool and all but what made Twitter and Reddit so good was the diversity of voices.

There were tech folks but also senior citizens, people who don't usually use social networks and those with marginalized voices. Both platforms started with mostly tech folks, Twitter didn't really blow up until the color revolutions, reddit really came into its own after the digg exodus.

The fediverse is making big gains because of both platforms thoroughly shitting the bed but we're not the only game in town. Threads has an extremely low barrier to entry but it's an entry into a Max Headroom style blipvert hellscape. Making our barrier to entry as low as possible could really help us "rescue" those users.

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

I agree that would be nice to make it so easy. I miss my gardening folks