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:

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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Indeed, nowadays I just send people to Lemm.ee

neutral name (sorry SJW)
second biggest instance
almost no defederation
no topic or country specific (I mean, technically Estonia, but everything happens in English, compared to feddit.org for instance)

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 2 months ago

almost no defederation

I don't think this is really a good thing. Most people don't want to bother curating their feed and if they get lots of bad stuff from instances that ought to be defederated, then they will leave.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

-Neutral name (sorry SJW)

Boo this person! (I kid, don't boo them, they're doing good work and I understand if not everyone wants to be a sh.it.head)