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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't forge your own destiny, then somebody will do it for you aka reddit.

Reddit failed due to governance and centralization issue. Not BC it was mainstream IMHO

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't think the massive amount of repetitive jokes and reposts and overall shitty attention whoring content was a problem on Reddit?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would posit that the main/lame stream is not the actor doing that shit but rather that their presence attracts bad faith actors.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

So we're still better off without them.