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celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The irony is that all it would take is one high profile person or a nation state to commit to using Mastodon, and slowly you would see the numbers start to increase. People are actively looking for an alternative to Twitter, it’s just that the vast majority of people have no idea that Mastodon, Lemmy, or the Fediverse on the whole exists. That’s a double edged sword. Better content moderation with lower numbers, better social media infrastructure building becomes the norm with greater numbers.

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JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The irony is that all it would take is one high profile person or a nation state to commit to using Mastodon, and slowly you would see the numbers start to increase.

Um, nope.

George Takei is on Mastodon. I’ve yet to see masses of Trekkies piling into Mastodon.

Greta Thunberg is on Mastodon. There has never been a huge influx of FFF members. Or Zoomers, for that matter.

The Dutch government has its own instance. The Federal German government has its own instance. Doesn’t lure anyone into the Fediverse.

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ademir@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Mastodon is too hard for common folks and still miss some functionality. It is unfortunate none has forked it yet into something better and mastodon keeps being the largest platform by a far amount.

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- JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The Fediverse is not only Lemmy and Mastodon. Even the microblogging side is not only Mastodon.
  
  Mastodon itself has a whole bunch of forks such as Ecko, Hometown and the very popular Glitch.
  
  There’s also Pleroma with its probably even more popular fork Akkoma.
  
  There’s Misskey with literally dozens of forks, including but not limited to Firefish (formerly Calckey), Iceshrimp (its rewrite Iceshrimp.NET won’t be a fork anymore, though), Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon etc. etc.
  
  If you want something with more power, something that’s much more like Facebook, there’s Friendica and has been since 2010.
  
  If you want something with vastly more power, think Facebook meets WordPress meets Google Cloud Services meets Fandom etc., there’s Hubzilla. Whenever someone thinks “the Fediverse” needs to introduce a certain new feature just because Mastodon doesn’t have it, chances are Hubzilla has had it for longer than Mastodon has even been around.
  
  And so forth.
  
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  - ademir@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I know all those projects (I host akkoma, besides this lemmy instance) but still my point stands, everyone new to the fediverse will first get in touch with mastodon and its bad design because it is by FAR the most popular platform.
    
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