• gabe [he/him]English
    13•2 years ago

    The eternal september moment for the fediverse is very much coming

      • gabe [he/him]English
        6•2 years ago

        Lemmy isn’t the only fediverse platform, Mastodon is growing rapidly as well

      • gabe [he/him]English
        8•2 years ago

        Once prominent celebrities and more news agencies start to come (and they will, the BBC is a sign of that) the culture will shift faster than you really realize. There is still an insular culture around the fediverse that tends to be a big barrier around entry for “normies” right now. Going on a mastodon instance as a new user with limited technical knowledge can be quite jarring especially if you step out of line of what it seen as culturally fitting for the fediverse

        • @Kikkertje@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          It’s very much a nerd/geek environment at the moment. There isn’t much for normies to look at…yet.

        • @AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          This is pretty much the prospect of a former Reddit user like myself. I was there for eight years and stepping away from the bubble has not been easy for me. Not great at swiftly navigating the internet. I was used to having been served a whole cake and now I scramble for crumbs. I won’t go back because Reddit was built on the backs of free labor. Due to gilded cage syndrome, Ive bounced from Mastodon to Tildes and now Lemmy.