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What’s with people and corporate owned social media platforms?
Were furries the “sheeple” all along? 🧐
It's the barrier to entry.
Spinning up your own social media platform is pretty easy in the grand scheme of things, but populating that platform is challenging. Doubly so if you want the platform to have topics beyond how good Linux is.
Furries have managed to carve out their own spaces on basically every platform and develped a subculture all on the outskirts of mainstream social media
We're getting there, slowly.
I was there, Gandalf. Two years and three months ago when !selfhosted was the largest Lemmy community.
We can talk about the news here too now!
Yep. Sometimes we talk about stuff happening outside the US even.
Brand recognition, I think.
I'm thinking we shouldn't market the fediverse as a concept, but rather individual instances which are good and meet a particular audience's needs and then tack on "you van still talk to people on other sites" later on in the pitch
Honestly not a bad idea.
It’s just so sad to me that something as simple as picking an instance is so difficult and scary to people that it’s a roadblock at all.