why is always Bluesky on top of these lists, better marketing?
It’s Twitter 2.0. It’s what the average person wants. It’s popular because it has algorithms and all the other addictive things from corporate social media.
Mastodon and others don’t have these things and are harder to get started with. Picking a server is weird and scary. After that, getting your home feed started is difficult if you don’t know to just follow some hashtags.
Picking a server is weird and scary.
As a scientist, I would be cautious of inferring the reason and beating ourselves up for it until we have crystal clear proof that that is the specific thing that’s turning people away.
I don’t think we need a full-on study to show that an additional barrier to entry hurts adoption.
It’s no different than signing up for an email account
Email? Do you mean Gmail?
And you don’t see that as a problem for most users?
Not that one thing alone, obviously. But it’s a big part of it.
We can call it a hypothesis if that helps.
Its better than nothing though. The fediverse wasn’t catching on. We’re lucky a worse alternative didn’t gain traction instead.
Plus, you could pick a server that quashes free speech (looking at you .world)
(Yes. I know I’m guilty too)
Better marketing, better UI, lots of users, and plenty of non-political content.
What’s non-political content, Lemmy?
Closest thing we have is people really hating Windows.
As is reasonable
We’re the non-political ones
- everyone on the Fediverse who keywordblocks everything political
Looking at my current feed, that would remove … upwards of 90 percent of the content.
The cat pictures community mostly.
Non-political Lemmy is… Bluesky?
Yes.
It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn’t really any choice).
exactly, it’s not even federated but gets listed among the federated ones and your average bob would think they’re all the same 🤦♂️
was hoping it verbal mention but was a screenshot, still feels good being recognized
