Mark Zuckerberg: “they trust me … dumb fucks”
Some folks on the fediverse:
People still trust Meta /Facebook how do we convince those people ?
This is the issue, connections. Person A is connected to BCD and BCD are connected to eachother and A, so unless everyone moves, everyone loses that connection.
People also follow groups, and specific companies or services which would also have to exist here.
If I find interesting links or content on here, I will share on my blog, e.g a link to a paper or article, I will say in my blog post it was posted to fediverse. A small thing but will hopefully also help highlight we do have interesting things going on here.
Eventually there may be a big pull. I still argue we need to be ready for the next big main stream scandle, and jump on it, to promote fedi, Not that the reinstatement of Alex Jones got that much attention, As I think the media want to avoid giving Alex Jones more attention.
@zleap @Miro_Collas @aral I think to be able to convince more people to join the fediverse , the fediverse should try to copy as many features as possible from the other traditional platforms. People join these platforms because of these features and don't want to lose them if they turn to Fediverse .
Groups, character limit on mastodon, video size , counts of likes/comments... Etc
We need more of the high quality content, and to interact with it, start conversations, the latter happens to a point. So attract users that way,
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@zleap @Miro_Collas @aral Sometimes I think the developers (with all respect to them all sure ) are a bit conservative about copying features from other platforms even though the big tech companies are just copying each other. But yes we know there are many technical limitations..
@Filani @zleap @aral I am not sure copying is the right approach. Granted, some features from (for example) twitter, might be nice to have.
However I think a better approach is to listen to users, study how fedi us used, and build on that information. That may result in some copying, but also (hopefully) features which are unique to the fediverse.
@Miro_Collas @zleap @aral Personally I have no problem with copying. But I totally agree with you that " listen to users" is maybe the way to go
@zleap @aral Yes, all true. And the convenience of that matters more than ethics/morals, as I said. That doesn't speak well of humans in general.