Roni Rolle Laukkarinen9h ago

I'd be a millionaire if I got a coin every time I heard one more "there is no alternative social media, where should we go?" comment. Now especially after the unsurprising LinkedIn/Microsoft spying news.

The funniest thing is that when we suggest Fediverse alternatives, people lose interest as soon as they've asked.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Show threadFeralRobots9h ago

@rolle I spend a lot of time on BlueSky & I see 2 typical reactions:

POC often say "Nope too much crypto-racism". I was here in 2022 & saw how a lot of them were aggressively driven away after migrating from Twitter, so I get that.

White middle class intellectual people OTOH respond with derision. Basically, fedi is uncool. If there are reasons they're varied, but the one constant is that it's uncool, for very white middle class American jr high school values of 'uncool.'

Show threadRoni Rolle Laukkarinen9h ago

@FeralRobots I understand there are UI concerns, cultural differences, and so on. But it's mostly psychological.

It's like, "I'd like to be healthier, but ewww, vegan food!"

Show threadFeralRobots
@rolle I wish it made that much sense! Someone I otherwise respect said fedi felt like being "constantly glowered at by a German."
Um, OK.
Attitude over there seems to be that now that there's an "ATmosphere" conference, ActivityPub is dead, & a lot of people - again, people I otherwise respect - get positively giddy about how that'll show those uppity fediversalists what's for.
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