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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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I send people links to posts on Lemmy, and tell people I can't see Instagram/Twitter/etc.

Is it working? No, not really, but it feels like it should.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago

Thank you for trying

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You're doing better than I am. I just bullshit them and say I'll "probably check it out later." By which I really mean whenever it gets reposted on a less shitty technology platform, in a few decades. But I don't say that part.