Is your corner of the internet talking about the fediverse?

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If so consider a post to the Fedimigration community ([email protected]). There you'll find resources and assistance to help people get onboarded.

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Yes, my corner of internet is fediverse and they constantly talk about it.

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Most of my friends aren’t technically inclined. Until the onboarding process is greatly simplified I can’t really recommend it.

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I'm on a group chat of mostly redditors that were salty about censorship, and they were sharing TikToks explaining the fediverse. Which was exciting to see. But they didn't mention Lemmy. They mentioned pixelfed and mastodon.

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Why not just send them to a specific instance? Once you're here it's pretty simple.

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I hear you but even then it’s not straightforward. My personal experience of trying to get signed up to Lemmy was pretty bad and I know my way around a computer. This could very well be an issue with the Arctic client but apps are how a lot of not most are going to interact with the platform so the ecosystem needs work.

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I was about to say the same! lol

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I’m doing my part in a small way by sharing links to content on the reverse whenever possible.

For example, I share a link to the meme instead of just sharing the image so my Discord channels can see where the content is coming from and might be curious enough to browse.

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I would just be like download Voyager and sign up

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It’s mostly people just talking about BlueSky, so no. I’ve had to be the one who explains the federated apps.

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The onboarding process is just as simple as anywhere else, so long as you point them to a website to use. We have to stop telling people to "join Mastodon" or "join Lemmy". That's like telling them to just "join social media".

The rough edge there is in communicating, and this weird desire ignore that this is 1000 websites, not just one.

Well, in that, and in finding off-site content to follow

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The app I use ("Boost") made it extremely easy, it's pretty much just as easy to use as reddit or instagram I would say - maybe even easier.

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And I will bet this is the exact way organic growth mostly happens for social media platforms. PS: I do the same

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Did you mention that they could come here to learn the "correct" set of political talking points?

(We really would need to make this place more welcoming btw.)

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I actually hear people of other corners of the internet talking about the fediverse, natives to the lands of Meta fed up (not a pun) with the sudden open nazification and looking for alternatives. Mostly Mastodon and Pixelfed, but the experience signing up is seen as complex, confusing and unpleasant, though the general idea is applauded.

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My corner of the internet is the fediverse mostly as others said.

My real life corner has moved to Bluesky from Twitter which isn't great but an improvement. I do have to say I prefer the way Bluesky allows you to make feeds and share them over Mastodon discoverability quite a lot.

The move away from meta is slowly starting. Facebook is a thing anymore. But Instagram still has people struggling to move away (as does WhatsApp but signal works similar enough that I get people to slowly move over). It's not open source but miles better than Zuckerberg.

But Pixelfed just isn't a thing most people know about it seems. Same with lemmy. So reddit is still used a lot or quit without replacement because everyone hates the app experience around here.

Pixelfed also isn't my thing but then I never used Instagram or TikTok either.

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I have made join lemmy post on my private subreddit with zero subscribers, and it got deleted
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Sorry to hear

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I did it just for fun, and it turns out, that reddit censorship is real.

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Oh, it very much is