Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This right here, the everyday person doesn’t know what federation is let alone believes that it’s an alternative to confederated platforms. They see it as a better Twitter that’s not run by Musk and honestly that’s all they need to know.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn’t just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.

    Look, I love Lemmy, but I can’t sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That’s not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it’s not the same thing.

    And everyone (well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that.

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    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think the uphill battle here is that a good amount of the active users on lemmy are probably very tech savvy. The percentage of us who aren’t, are doing it wrong in their eyes.

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      • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dunno, I like the fact that people here are tech-savvy. My HS guidance counselor said I should always hang out with people that are smarter than I am. That’s why I like it here, everypony seems so knowledgable.

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fully Agree.

        Mastodon, Lemmy and the likes are all enthusiast platforms in my eyes. Their primary userbase of the more savvy folk who are early adopters. I also believe it’s why many don’t fully get how complicated the fediverse really is to comprehend. To many the hurtles are just costs of being in the field/having a tech passion, hopefully it will be adopted but like, I still think the UI and general behavior and mechanics of it will be a fairly big roadblock.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They haven’t gone through the churn of corporate emshittification enough yet I’d have to guess.

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  • commander@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and honestly that’s all they need to know.

    Err… why are we suggesting the corporate-owned and centralized bluesky over Mastodon then?

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