@Shoq @Johannes Ernst I think hopes were high last year that the Twitter Migration would lure more tech-savvy geeks into the Fediverse, seeing as they were its initial target audience.
Instead, the Fediverse got millions of phone-wielding tech illiterates who simply have noped away from Musk. People who actually still feel there's too much tech talk and especially too much talk about Linux going on in the Fediverse. People who wouldn't even have come here, hadn't they been railroaded to their first home instance and mollycoddled into believing the Fediverse is only that one instance, just to let them find out what the Fediverse really is after they've settled in.
In the meantime, the geeks have barely heard of the Fediverse because nobody in their filter bubble is talking about it. Those who have may still be sceptical that something like the Fediverse could work, and since they know better, it probably doesn't anyway. Many have left social networks/social media altogether because "social media" equals the big corporate American silos plus TikTok in their minds, and again, many are completely unaware that free, open-source, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentralised alternatives a) exist, b) work and c) are used by someone. Those who haven't cling to their accounts on 𝕏 and Instagram because "but muh thousands of followers, but muh weekly likes."
Last but not least, I think especially the newest generation of developers can mostly only develop mobile apps anymore. Another reason why we got a deluge of new "Mastodon and whatever else happens to work with this, idk and idc" iOS apps while server projects are struggling to find devs.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #Fediverse
Jupiter Rowland /
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2024-01-03 09:58:26
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