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For the reasons above. It's not that they are "afraid of growth", but the general culture on the Fediverse is reactionary and averse to change. Making it more universally appealing would mean bringing different people, and this is what they are afraid of.

What changes are people afraid of? What "different people" is the Fediverse afraid of?

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What “different people” is the Fediverse afraid of?

Normies.

Small business who want to have a social media presence.

Influencers.

Reporters.

Anyone who is not 100% aligned with their political mindset
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- Skavau@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  "Normies"? How?
  
  What's stopping small businesses and influencers from setting up support communities to try and boost their profile?
  
  What reporters?
  
  Anyone who is not 100% aligned with their political mindset
  
  Does this, by the way, not depend on the instance?
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    What’s stopping small businesses and influencers
    
    There is nothing stopping them, but there is no one here that wants them to come:
    
    Scroll around for a bit on the federated timeline of your preferred Mastodon instance, tell me how long it takes for someone to display an anti-business sentiment.
    
    There is no one coordinated movement to get creators on YouTube and tell them “hey, if you start putting your videos on PeerTube we will contribute to your Patreon”.
    
    Every and any effort to build a public searchable index of the Fediverse was attacked on the grounds of “I don’t want my data used by marketers”.
    
    The majority view on “how to best fund the Fediverse” is “set up donations”. Whenever I bring up “I think it’s more fair if everyone paid just a little bit, this is why my instance is only for paying members”, I am immediately treated as an evil capitalist pig.
    
    What reporters?
    
    There were a number of reporters from the NYT/WSJ/CNN who set up Mastodon accounts in 2022 and were harassed on Mastodon.
    
    Does this, by the way, not depend on the instance?
    
    Do you think that Fediverse is a good representation of the overall political spectrum?
    
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    barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    All of your arguments in this discussion have been totally on-point. Great posts. I may have to rethink joining your instance!
    
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    Skavau@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    There is nothing stopping them, but there is no one here that wants them to come:
    
    People don't really respond well to advertisements and influencers on Reddit either, for context.
    
    Scroll around for a bit on the federated timeline of your preferred Mastodon instance, tell me how long it takes for someone to display an anti-business sentiment.
    
    So here do you just mean "people tend to be democratic socialists/communists/anarchists"?
    
    There is no one coordinated movement to get creators on YouTube and tell them "hey, if you start putting your videos on PeerTube we will contribute to your Patreon".
    
    Oh, well I don't know enough about Peertubes success here. I don't really use that.
    
    The majority view on "how to best fund the Fediverse" is "set up donations". Whenever I bring up "I think it's more fair if everyone paid just a little bit, this is why my instance is only for paying members", I am immediately treated as an evil capitalist pig.
    
    Oh for goodness sake. I simply don't believe that a paywalled system as you imagine could ever even approach Reddits numbers, or even Blueskys.
    
    Do you think that Fediverse is a good representation of the overall political spectrum?
    
    Not really. So? Neither are major reddit subreddits in many cases.
    
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