I guess most people are. I am to a degree, but only with family private message chats. That network effect is like cement. So theres not much chance for someone like me to talk about the fediverse on other aocial media. Maybe this experience is common. I think there was a post asking about this the other day that gor pretty high up the ‘All’ feed.
Yeah like I want to tell people how easy it is, and how much better things are here, but I sure as shit am not going to make an X or Bluebird account to do it. So at most I just yack about it to other nerds on my lunch break
Hahaha!!! Oh to be a fly on the wall in your lunch room! 😆😆
I’ve generally found it difficult to communicate why the fediverse, or even the social web is better than these walled gardens run by private companies. I think a lot of people haven’t had a motivating moment to shift. I’s always skeptical of fb, never really liked the set up, so i suppose i hadn’t had the same investment into the account like others.
Although I gave up Youtube also, and I used that a lot more. But that was more a ‘viewing’ account, rather than social media communication. So different reasons driving that I think.
The analogy I keep going back to is that of the shopping centre / mall. While it makes sense to go there for commerce and some light socializing, isn’t it sad if malls were the only places you socialized?
Luckily, other places exist! Both irl, to real malls, and online, to commercial platforms.
Just getting people to wake up to the fact that they’re choosing to stay on a corporate run platform is huge imho
This is an interesting analogy. So in your scenario Lemmy World is like a Pub (Public House) where any bludger can mosey on down to ‘warm their toes’ with a little socialising.
To get creative we’d name Lemmy World, The Lemmy Worlds End, an ever popular name for a pub.
My server, being Aussie zone, is like Mercury, a centimetre from the sun ;)
And your server is probably like Yosemite National Park or something.
Yeah, I like that frame. I think I’ll incorporate that into how I talk about the fediverse. Might need to polish my examples a bit more though. 😆
I guess most people are. I am to a degree, but only with family private message chats. That network effect is like cement. So theres not much chance for someone like me to talk about the fediverse on other aocial media. Maybe this experience is common. I think there was a post asking about this the other day that gor pretty high up the ‘All’ feed.
Yeah like I want to tell people how easy it is, and how much better things are here, but I sure as shit am not going to make an X or Bluebird account to do it. So at most I just yack about it to other nerds on my lunch break
Hahaha!!! Oh to be a fly on the wall in your lunch room! 😆😆
I’ve generally found it difficult to communicate why the fediverse, or even the social web is better than these walled gardens run by private companies. I think a lot of people haven’t had a motivating moment to shift. I’s always skeptical of fb, never really liked the set up, so i suppose i hadn’t had the same investment into the account like others.
Although I gave up Youtube also, and I used that a lot more. But that was more a ‘viewing’ account, rather than social media communication. So different reasons driving that I think.
The analogy I keep going back to is that of the shopping centre / mall. While it makes sense to go there for commerce and some light socializing, isn’t it sad if malls were the only places you socialized?
Luckily, other places exist! Both irl, to real malls, and online, to commercial platforms.
Just getting people to wake up to the fact that they’re choosing to stay on a corporate run platform is huge imho
This is an interesting analogy. So in your scenario Lemmy World is like a Pub (Public House) where any bludger can mosey on down to ‘warm their toes’ with a little socialising.
To get creative we’d name Lemmy World, The Lemmy Worlds End, an ever popular name for a pub.
My server, being Aussie zone, is like Mercury, a centimetre from the sun ;)
And your server is probably like Yosemite National Park or something.
Yeah, I like that frame. I think I’ll incorporate that into how I talk about the fediverse. Might need to polish my examples a bit more though. 😆