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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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell friends and family to get accounts on federated services you use. Word of mouth is how lots of websites get popular.

Recommend it when reddit comes up or gets mentioned.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't even tell people I use Lemmy, let alone recommend it, because of how much authoritarian propaganda there is on here.

I love the idea and won't give up on it easily, and I hope other users can join me in making it a better place by calling out propaganda.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br -3 points 2 months ago

because of how much authoritarian propaganda there is on here.

lol you never saw authoritarian propaganda in the commercial social media because you already are brainwashed.