I think the idea of federated social media itself would have made fediverse sky rocket itself. bloggers tooters and video creators or any kind of internet user can connect with eachother here. but that hasn’t happened. not at least yet. so why?

what are the problems. or what things are missing on the fediverse that makes it still so unpopular?

  • 8Petros (he/him)@lemmy.ml
    11·
    3 years ago

    IMO it is not the fediverse lack of anything. It is rather that fediverse appeals to those, who are not happy with the centralized media ecosystem. And such people are:

    • a minority (while growing)
    • very often invested in their long-term footprint in the former environment
    • also often not knowing what is the fediverse about and what would they trade their “comfort zone” for.

    I believe it is to us, precursors, to keep “educating, agitating and organizing” long-term, so more and more people come here, shed their toxic habits acquired in the corpozone, and become happier and caring members of their communities.

    What it needs, I believe, is

    1. Building our own social permaculture ecosystem.
    2. Supporting technical infrastructure of fediverse by elaborating other levels of social dynamics, for example as I outlined here: https://lemmy.ml/post/63108
    3. Expanding the variety of needs (social, psychological and material) fediverse services can fulfil, so people keep coming not just for a whiff of freedom. :-)

    “They come for services, they stay for freedom”

    • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      very often invested in their long-term footprint in the former environment

      I would not mention this yet.

      There is a lot of teens from a few years ago that only promote consumerist culture: buying non-needed hardware every 2 years or when main companies promote new exigent game, etc.

      • 8Petros (he/him)@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        I think this is the least probable group of adopters for now, at least until we reach the early majority stage. They live in a groomed bubble of corpoinfluence and are not likely to break out on themselves. The demographics, however, is on our side. In every generation there is always a group of dissidents, actively looking for something “above and beyond” and – even bigger – a group of those who see no alternative but getting molded into a shape that mainstream dictates.

        • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
          2·
          3 years ago

          There are already a lot of them inside. You can mostly check it in the Pleroma side.

          It think that the reasons where quite different to the rest of people to join.