• 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.