Is your corner of the internet talking about the fediverse?

[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
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[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!

[deserthermit@lemmy.world]

How do those conversations go? Any takers so far?

Curious if Bsky is as far as most people will dabble.

[rqg@lemmy.world]

That's great to hear.

In my real life bubble Noone has heard of it.

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

Yeah good - everyone is really positive about it when I tell them.

I'm not sure how many of them end up using the fediverse based on our conversation but I think broader and more important cultural changes are built on slow but widespread indications of shifting values; I think conversations about what the fediverse stands for is actually more important than people using it.