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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[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago (16 children)

I'm a developer, and it was a pain picking an instance. You start reading about them, and it turns out one's censored, the other one's communist, third one doesn't cooperate with the other ones so you can't see anything...

As long as it is like this, I don't believe mass adoption is feasible. I would've given up because it takes a lot of time compared to just registering and off you go, but I was interested to see what's all the ruckus after reddit started with censorship. Maybe interesting to mention that I was never an active reddit member (not one post there).

[–] 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)

[–] 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)

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