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   Finns End (finnsend@social.anoxinon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:45:03 JST Finns End

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   "The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have
   spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

   And that’s just not bloody true."

   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/

   #fediverse #socialmedia

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:44:55 JST Fish of Rage

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     @finnsend multiple people straight up tell me it's too complicated.
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     Finns End (finnsend@social.anoxinon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:52:15 JST Finns End

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     @sun That is really strange as I think it's much easier than i.e. X. And Facebook is Windows of the social networks. Never really understood it.

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 07:35:12 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @sun It isn't that the Fediverse is at all complicated or hard to understand; it is that it is different than what they've already been using. They'd rather not invest the effort in understanding it when they can just move to Bluesky and use it as a Twitter clone. (Bluesky has its own complications and it isn't even truly federated, but one can easily ignore all of those things and just pretend they're on Twitter.)
     
     And if one isn't interested in federation and decentralization, why should they bother learning about it if they don't have to? Go to Bluesky or Threads (as long as they don't turn on federation) and have "Twitter without the Nazis" but without all the botheration (examples: #blockwars / #fediblock, instance drama, policy differences between instances) that Mastodon and the Fediverse bring with them.
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     evaunit69 (evaunit69@fedi.dreamscape.link)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:11:48 JST evaunit69

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     • Red Rozenglass
     I don't know how to make friends, guys. The Fedi IS confusing. (': But I heard really cool people exist here. So here I am, giving it a try, lmao.
     
     CC: @sun@shitposter.world @finnsend@social.anoxinon.de
     
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     Red Rozenglass (rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:11:50 JST Red Rozenglass

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     @finnsend@social.anoxinon.de @sun@shitposter.world I think Facebook is too complicated. LinkedIn made my head spin when I tried it. I think self-hosting my fedi instance wasn't much harder than "learning Facebook", or the half-a-dozen local product delivery service in my country. The bigger barrier is just the network effect, I think. There are a few dozen peers around my mom to teach her Facebook, there are near-zero to teach her about the Fedi.
     
     But perhaps it is better that way. When are we going to learn our lesson, and stop repeating the massacre of the Eternal September?