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How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 @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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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned porn yet. Like it or not, it does drive growth.

[-] sir@lemmy.xxxiver.se 7 points 11 months ago

That's what I'm trying to do with https://xxxiver.se

I think porn creators would actually benefit enormously from using fediverse services. They own their data/platform, they can't get kicked off, etc.

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 11 months ago

wow! that's cool. Good job!

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, porn is the only reason I still visit Reddit from time to every day.

[-] MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Same. The volume of porn on reddit is staggering. On Lemmy most of the porn comes from repost bots with 0 quality filter or God awful AI bullshit.

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 11 months ago

there is lemmynsfw

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm very well aware. I frequent that server.

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 11 months ago

cool

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah! I think that's going to sway in this place's favor very soon.

I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

It's probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.