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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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

With all due respect, fuck the normies. The fediverse is better off without them.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We all love bashing out less techie friends but dunking on them is counter productive!

Like it or not they make the main/lame stream. We need fedi to go mainstream to deny corpo trash profits.

Like it or not, normies must be onboarded!

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but once there is a big pond with a lot of fish, there will be sharks.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 months ago

bots, feds and shills will always fall a school of fish for hunting :/

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We need fedi to go mainstream to deny corpo trash profits.

Why? Who cares if we don't have to interact with them? Becoming mainstream was the downfall of Reddit.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago

So we're still better off without them.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I don't want the "normies" around, whoever they are, but personally I would like to see a lot more people joining in such as Go players, Skyrim modders, situationists, auto mechanics, British panel show enthusiasts, death metal guitarists, discordians, card sharks, magicians, acid heads, skydivers, xylophonists, and amateur zookeepers. This part of fedi has more than enough politics and computers and too little everything else.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world for active niche communities

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Just be patient.