• Kara
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    141 year ago

    “No no no, the different instances and stuff aren’t competing. You see they all grow together”

  • Riley
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    141 year ago

    ngl I’ve honestly gotten very frustrated at some of my friends for being very unreceptive to even trying a fediverse site, saying they would rather just stop using social media, and then signing up for Bluesky the moment they got the opportunity.

  • @MiddleWeigh
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    I stopped halfway, explaining to my mom. She got the jist and thought it was cool, cause she has come to loathe centralized power in her own little way. “OH so it’s like the internet used to be” I was kinda surprised how quickly she picked up on my excitement.

    • @Vuraniute
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      wish i could get my family to understand FOSS software and decentralisation and all that, and why it’s important. sadly, they can’t even figure out that “you can’t use a work or school account on this version of microsoft teams” means they have to go and download the work/school version of microsoft teams, so getting them to understand all that would be difficult

      • @MiddleWeigh
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        They don’t really understand what it means in detail, but they understand, after being stepped on forever, that usually big centralized things, revolving around money, do not have their interest at heart. It’s more a feeling to her I guess, after a vague explanation by me lol.

        • @Vuraniute
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          sadly, there’s also the part that “well everyone i know uses the big centralised services so”

          tried to get my dad (who actually knows a thing or two about computers) to switch to element and he said “i have 5 apps for communication, it’s so inconvenenient, a sixth would only make things worse”

          • @MiddleWeigh
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            Yea for sure. I was lucky enough to not have ever been attached to or have a platform like that ingrained in my life. I only ever used reddit, and only for the last year ftmp. So this place is just a natural progression for me. People are definitely stuck in their ways and ideas of how things should be, and it’s a self perpetuating cycle.

            • @Vuraniute
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              lucky you, all of my family uses viber, so i have to use it too, because their friends use it so getting them to switch would be… oh would you look at that, we’ve achieved recursion!

  • DoucheAsaurus
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    111 year ago

    “No, see, it’s actually a good thing that everything isn’t in one place…”

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    My roommate’s eyes rolled very hard when I casually dropped the term “fediverse” for the first time

  • TragicNotCute
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    91 year ago

    But they all use the same protocol!

  • LostCause
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    51 year ago

    People I talk to have some excitement about my excitement, but also don‘t get it and are unlikely to change their habits, since they get whatever they seek on the centralised platforms.

    I‘m cool though, it‘s like how Reddit used to be way back then, populated mostly some tech enthusiasts and it was nice like that.

  • health427581
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    draft comment not aimed at OP but rather just a sort of random shower thought -

    instead of using the word “fediverse” would “activitypub” be a more prime time / palatable / sellable / legit / grown up sounding word to use?

    • @AB7ORH7DOP
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      I think decentralized internet is probably the most legitimate sounding