So, I completely switched to FOSS federated social networks toward the middle of 2020. I love the Fediverse, but nobody I know IRL seems to care at all about it in any capacity, so I’m basically just screaming into a void full of other FOSSheads. How do I reconcile this? How do we get our IRL peeps on the Fediverse?

  • MobocraticEgoist@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    That is where we are right now, but it would be nice to have a full replacement for Facebook or Twitter. We will need the benefit of the network effect to move beyond a niche community. I would like to get to the point of using fediverse to connect to people IRL (and Jabber for instant messaging, etc.)

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      4 years ago

      Okay so make this tool more useful to more people. I’m a believer that you need a “killer feature” really, something great that no other service has.

      For me that will be following/blocking people. So i can choose to only interact with the people i like to hear from.