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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?

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[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So I have been on Mastodon and Threads for quite awhile. I'm on BlueSky now too. Threads is the most enjoyable of the three by far. I don't see how marketing has to do with it in any way, but after spending some time on each, I prefer Threads. It's the only one that I've found content I wanted to engage with.

With Mastodon, I feel like I still can't get started. I'm not sure what to do.

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[–] eriez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What made reddit so popular in my opinion was that every sub wasn't filled with agenda driven narratives you could find interests or memes random people with deep insights to whatever the topic was.

In Lemmy it seems every sub is skewed with left wing or DTS filled insane ppl and to find just normal shit is the rarity

Much like when there is an exodus on other platforms to host only right leaning viewpoints a "normal" person viewing it will see the same thing Lemmy has become and just go back to what they were using before

The problem is not the platform its the people. Chill tf out with all that propaganda horseshit and u might get regular ppl to use your product.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe the "age of the free internet" has passed and people just expect bad faith and react completely radicalized today.

[–] sachamato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A sweet interface like Sync for Lemmy and respectful content and engagement are the key to me.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is it an option to not? Cuz if so that's what I'd choose.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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