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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

all traffic being handled by fediverse.com as a neutral middle party to handle login verifications.

Who manages fediverse.com? Who prevents it from being bought out by a billionaire? Who ensures that it stays neutral in case of cat food vegan debates? Who prevents people unsatisfied with the issue of that debate to create their own fediverse.com?

And as far as the world goes, the boomers, even on deaths door, are STILL the largest demographic of people in society. So if you exclude them, you are saying millions of people aren’t welcome on your platform, and in doing so, will hinder it’s growth. Permanently. Until they die off, their numbers are needed for anything to be considered a sucsess.

TikTok doesn't have boomers, is it not considered a success? Trying to bring in the boomer population doesn't seem to bring a lot of values if they don't interact and stay in their own bubbles.

Bringing Reddit users, which are usually closer to the Lemmy demographics, would be more interesting, as those users would interact and mingle better with the rest of the existing userbase.

As a general comment, I'm always surprised when people want to bring everyone to a platform. Every city or town has several bars and cafes. You don't expect the old ladies sipping tea to go to the rock cafe, and you don't expect young parents to spend time in university bars.

It's okay to have different places for different people on the Internet.