Is your corner of the internet talking about the fediverse?

[breadcat@sh.itjust.works]

I would just be like download Voyager and sign up

[apollosarrow@lemmy.world]

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

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

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

[plaidboy@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[fakir@lemm.ee]

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

[openstars@piefed.social]

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.)

[nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl]

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.

[rqg@lemmy.world]

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.

[lambdarx@sh.itjust.works]

I have made join lemmy post on my private subreddit with zero subscribers, and it got deleted
┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sorry to hear

[lambdarx@sh.itjust.works]

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

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Oh, it very much is

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Cool comm

[idunnololz@lemmy.world]

Very true. Maybe I should finally check out this "Lemmy" I keep hearing about. /s

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

I don't use any closed source or centralised social media any more but I speak to people in real life about the Fediverse and share links to fediverse posts with my friends and family.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Just link them to the registration page of your favorite instance directly. Boom, easy UX.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

But Pixelfed just isn't a thing most people know about it seems.

You'd be surprised. I've heard several people reach out unprompted and specifically ask about it

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

In my mind. Bluesky is good enough. I'm frequently talking with people through the bridge without realizing it.

[everett@lemmy.ml]

Have you checked the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately? It amounts to "write us a short essay personal statement of what you intend to do here and we'll manually approve your account sometime, hopefully soon." I know this is somewhat standardized among instances, and it's there for a noble reason, but it's without a doubt friction for everybody who goes to sign up, and a barrier to entry for a good chunk of people, who might not yet even fully know why they'd want to join aside from "my friend says this is cool."

[mac@mander.xyz]

Its just so hard to sign up for a website.
I'm surprised there's anyone here at all!