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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[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How hard would it be to create a little quiz that directs or chooses an instance based on your interests?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the hard part would be keeping it up to date as instances change

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

True. I forgot how easily an instance could disappear overnight. Happened to me in another instance