So I like to call the grouping as the federation but for me it mainly means the things aggregating communities. So the reddit like experience but then there is mastadon which is twitter like. Anyway I often think about the whole thing like going to a bar, or a club, or basically any type of thing where you hang out. You have places you regularly like to hang at which are the subscritpions, you have places you hate and you block those, then you sometimes just go whereever to see whats out there which is like scrolling all. So I was trying to think what mastadon would be like and I was thinking it was like going to someones party because the host is not a group or location so much as an individual. There is no real question here just a musing I felt like sharing.

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 1 week ago

The issue with Mastodon, and pretty much most of the fediverse is that the non techy people do NOT want to choose a server, they just want something to work....
Once you throw in a lot of the positives us people see, it turns it into a negative for them, they have no need or want for decentralisation and they simply don't sign up.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 1 week ago

Facebook = the old bar that pretty much everybody used to go to, you know the one where the bar person tells everybody your business and there is always someone trying to sell you stuff...
Mastodon is that new place in town, but most people don't go really. It's cheap, nobody tells you what to do but most fo your mates still don't go there...
X is that club that's loud, people shouting all the time, trying to get your attention. It's where you go if you want a wild night and break a few rules

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

mastadon is like being apart of that clique in high school that revolved around that one popular kid.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

and they tended to have the parties :)