• @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    237 months ago

    Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      97 months ago

      Twitter was bluesky before musk bought it, federation ensures that can’t easily happen to mastodon.

      That’s it.

        • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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          37 months ago

          maybe not your mother, but anyone who left twitter recently (because musk) should understand. that’s who we are talking about.

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          17 months ago

          Is she looking for alternatives?

          If so, it sounds like she understands Twitter turned to shit and would be smart enough to not want that to happen again.

          If she’s not looking for alternatives it sounds like she’s fine on Twitter.

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              07 months ago

              Then she’s probably staying on Twitter (or was never there in the first place) making this whole thread about moms moot.

    • @index@sh.itjust.works
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      77 months ago

      Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?

      Billionares with mega yacht fleets are choosing bluesky over mastodon.

        • @index@sh.itjust.works
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          37 months ago

          Talk for yourself, the average person does indeed care about the environment. In the past years there have been massive greenwashing campaigns from companies trying to please the average customer.

          • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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            47 months ago

            Yeah because it doesn’t cost them anything to say they “do their part” when they make token “commitments”. It’s not because the average person gives a shit. Give them a choice - $5 more an hour, or instantly and forever solve climate change and see how many people would choose climate change.

            People complain about having to sort trash before throwing it out. Saying “most people care about the environment” is extremely naive.

          • @Ashtear@lemm.ee
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            47 months ago

            Man, I wanna live in your neighborhood. I’m surrounded by bougie people or people with bougie fantasies. They talk all the time about drinking wine on a boat.

    • Jeffool OP
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      37 months ago

      It gives space to do servers based on specific interests if you want. I’m part of a game development server, and my “Local” tab has people on my server often talking about, and showing, things that are related to game development. And I can still follow anyone from any other Mastodon server too.

      If you’re into video games, film, maybe a specific genre of music, you can have an instance dedicated to that. (It might already exist.) It’s like a virtual neighborhood, or forum. Remember forums? Those were nice. They cultivated a sense of community which made people a little more responsible in their attitudes, it feels like. Maybe that’s just nostalgia, but I like the server I’m on. It’s got friendly people I can talk to without feeling the need to fill my follows with them.

    • Psychadelligoat
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      07 months ago

      5-second quip

      Someone like Musk is impossible here

      Freedom from tyrants, maybe