This is a follow-up from my previous thread.

The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon.

The reasons, summarised by @[email protected] are:

  1. marketing
  2. not having to pick the instance when registering
  3. people who have experienced Mastodon’s hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
  4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
  5. marketing

and I’m saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer.

Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this.

How do we get “normies” to adopt the Fediverse?

  • @pivot_rootEnglish
    22•3 months ago

    I’m surprised nobody has mentioned porn yet. Like it or not, it does drive growth.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•3 months ago

      That’s what I’m trying to do with https://xxxiver.se

      I think porn creators would actually benefit enormously from using fediverse services. They own their data/platform, they can’t get kicked off, etc.

    • @PloppEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      Yeah, porn is the only reason I still visit Reddit from time to every day.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•3 months ago

        Same. The volume of porn on reddit is staggering. On Lemmy most of the porn comes from repost bots with 0 quality filter or God awful AI bullshit.

        • @PloppEnglish
          4•3 months ago

          I’m very well aware. I frequent that server.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      Yeah! I think that’s going to sway in this place’s favor very soon.

      I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

      As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

      It’s probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.

      • @CryophiliaEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        God I hope so, but Lemmy the Fediverse is weirdly anti-porn and anti-sex.

        Edit: the whole thing

        • @[email protected]English
          3•3 months ago

          Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

          Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

          We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

          I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

          I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

          Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

          Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

          I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.