I want to write an article that answers the question ‘Why should YOU join the Fediverse?’, which would basically be an exhaustive list of arguments for joining the Fediverse, each argument linked (LINKS PLEASE!) to an article/publication that illustrates it. I’ll translate it into several languages.
Can you help me?
I usually just show them videos/videos without the Algorithm and a couple come on over. We also have [email protected] and that helps.
Instead of trying to sell the Fediverse, I just sell the site without any ads. Quite a few are interested. Then I post on discord on different sources. A couple have come around. They technically dont know they are on the fedi.
It’s constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos’ are being spun up every day.
The fediverse is the public commons of the internet; a truly democratic institutional framework unlike any commercial alternative. It is the 21st century internet of the present and the future.
This sounds more like a dreaded VC pitch! (But true in substance.)
It is the principal fulcrum to leverage the masses, stated simply enough for most to understand.
Yeah you definitely forgot the word “leverage” in the v1 pitch
On one hand, you’ll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you’ll never be able to convince your parents to switch!
Xkcd 918
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Memes and furries
It has no ads and never will.
Because the Fediverse is the exclusive home to my confusing but entertaining long winded rants. Look, I bought a great keyboard, and when I get home, I just like typing. So I shut my brain off and just GO OFF on someone, or some situation. My fingers get to type and type and type on a keyboard which I can only describe as “pleasurable”.
Usually the rants are just me taking some minor thing I noticed or had happen to me and doing a deep dive rant. Just letting my inner monologue out into the world in text form. Or maybe an idea I have. I think my posts in /r/crazyideas are my favorite.
There’s stuff you want to interact with there.
Good luck with “exhaustive” because people have different unique reasons to come to the fediverse. It would be a very long list.
For the average user I’d approach it with points that affects everyone:
- We can’t have a Twitter-style take over
- We can’t have a Reddit API disaster
- It’s distributed so while parts of the fediverse come and go, you’ll never lose the platform as a whole.
- It’s distributed geographically so one hostile country can’t silence information from other countries like Facebook and Twitter are doing.
- No algorithms designed to keep you scrolling forever
- No ads or commercial content being pushed by the algorithm
- Loads of choices for instances and moderation style for everyone’s taste.
- Users get to choose how they want to browse and with which apps: you’re not stuck with the latest crappy redesign you hate. You’ll never be forced to have reels and stories in your feed if you don’t want that.
- Not controlled by big corporations like Meta and Google, but rather the community for the community.
- If you have sensitive communities you can own the servers to ensure it’s survival in situations where Facebook would immediately ban that page/group.
- No bullshit AI products shoved in your face like Grok or Reddit Answers.
- You as a user are in control of what you see and don’t see.
- No advertiser friendly content policies forcing you to use stupid words like “unalive”, “pewpew”, “corn” or algorithmic downprioritization because you swore.
- If you prefer to browse Instagram-like, you still get to see Twitter-like post, and you friends can see your photos from a Twitter-like interface. Or you can have a Twitter-like interface and interact with Reddit-like posts on Lemmy.
It’s harder to onboard and figure out by the common people but it would be the final platform switch. You may move instances over time but you will never be left looking for a new platform because the old one enshittified. You just move to an instance that hasn’t, done.
Just don’t tell 'em all that or they’ll never come.
Yeah the best campaigns I’ve seen for the Fediverse were reactionary to something happening on big socials: Lemmy when the API fiasco happened, Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, recently Pixelfed to replace Instagram, and Loops the last 2 weeks before TikTok was about to get banned.
People don’t change because it’s better, they change because they’re pissed off at their current platform.
If you prefer to browse Instagram-like, you still get to see Twitter-like post, and you friends can see your photos from a Twitter-like interface. Or you can have a Twitter-like interface and interact with Reddit-like posts on Lemmy.
Except if you try to display Mastodon posts on any significantly different platform, Mastodon users will lose their shit and harass you until you shut it down.
Because everyone miss the old OpenWeb ! We don’t like closed API ! We don’t like opaque and imposed algorithmes ! We don’t like centralized closed plateform ! We don’t want to be enslave to create data. We don’t want their addicting mechanism, digitalizing heroin. We don’t want blockchains to record every interractions we have !
All we want is Web0 ! And the Fediverse might be part of this better Open Web.
Do you like communism? Scratch that, do you like China? Then Lemmy is perfect for you!
The Fediverse is diverse. Do you want something looking like the original Instagram? We’ve got it. Just a Twitter-clone (without algorithms)? We got it too. Something like Reddit? Sure thing, why not! Something to track your books with? Yeah, that’s around as well. Something doesn’t exist yet? Don’t worry, it eventually will! 😋
And the fun thing… Most of the platforms can interact with each other since they speak mostly the same language on the same network! You don’t like the interface of Mastodon? No worries, go use Misskey or Akkoma or whatever! Mastodon-users will still be able to read your posts! No more moving to a nicer looking platform and finding out that all your followers have to move along too or you’d be shouting all alone into the void!
Because you’re sick of being toyed with by billionaire’s algorithms designed to wring everything last drop out of you they can.
No ads is a monumental reason to join
Yeah, everyone loves the fruits of free labor.
I donate to my instance.
Do you?
No. Did you read my message? If I wanted to pay I’d expect quality lmao.
I can host it and have 100% what I consume and who I don’t interact with.
