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aes@lemm.ee 9 months agoWhy would anyone join Lemmy/Mastodon if they could join Threads instead for the same content? Normal people don’t care that your shit is FLOSS or decentralised, they just want convenience.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why would anyone run their own email server if they could just use Gmail instead for the same content?
Your argument could also be used against the very idea of federation.
aes@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Your argument was that people aren’t using servers that run FLOSS federated software is because they’re not aware of them. My argument is that the people who aren’t aware are also people who wouldn’t use those servers even if they knew.
The people who run their own mail servers are massive nerds, the people who are on Mastodon are also massive nerds. This status quo won’t change just because a megacorp adopts ActivityPub. So if that’s your argument, the original commenter’s point still stands.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Only massive nerds are worth interacting with?
aes@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Reread my message since my last edit. I’m not arguing that at all; I’m simply saying that if the open source Fediverse wants to appeal to a wider audience, it needs to appeal to the needs and wants of that audience. That’s not the same as merely federating with an ActivityPub instance that already does have that appeal.
aes@lemm.ee 9 months ago