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How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 @noodlejetski@lemm.ee are:

marketing

not having to pick the instance when registering

people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining

algorithms helping discover people and content to follow

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?

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

PDS just looks like a glorified handle.

They look the same to me. I had a look at Bluesky yesterday, every PDS I could find was just using their domain as username, I could never find a user@someoneelse.com

[-] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 2 months ago

The users with PDS use something like @user.domain.com. Users with just @domain.com are under Bluesky IIRC.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Wait

example of users with a PDS: https://bsky.app/profile/felipeneto.com.br
example of user using Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sannewman.bsky.social

I have yet to see someone with @user.domain.com, do you have an example?

[-] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago

Oops, I misunderstood how it works. You can add subdomains as your handle.

I thought subdomains were people using PDS. So I don't know anyone running a PDS. I might try running one just to see what it's like and actually learn the network.

But here's an example of @user.domain.com: https://bsky.app/profile/tomoshika.voms.net

I don't think they're using a PDS though. In fact, it's really hard to tell who's using a PDS or not. I'm not sure what the effect of this is in community-building and I wonder if control over the network is really decentralized. This is really... confusing.

Anyway, the PDS is a lot more complicated than I thought: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/category/advanced-guides