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This is a follow-up from my previous thread.

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 @[email protected] are:

  1. marketing
  2. not having to pick the instance when registering
  3. people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
  4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
  5. 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem with this approach is that your peeps won't see any reason to go there if it's the same as the R-site only exponentially less popular.

There needs to be an understandable USP.

Perhaps: "But without ads. Ever. Anywhere." Works for me and I know what an ad-blocker is, unlike a ton of normies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Sincere question: what does "normie" exactly mean in the context of Lemmy? Is it a person that couldn't get past setting up Lemmy account?

The term sounds like it has kinda elitist connotations. I mean I've set up Lemmy, but I don't feel like I'm god given - maybe I should. ๐Ÿ˜† (kidding, of course)