The irony of trying to advertise the Fediverse to the outside - some ideas about the fediverse I had beyond just micro-blogging

[emily]

You learned the benefits Mastodon had, to the "problem" of big social media sites, that the Fediverse offers to social media, and when advertising it, you believe that this is the platform that everyone wants. Where are they at? Still on the bigger more fulfilled social media platforms.



While Mastodon, has some good record breaking activity compared to any other 'legitimate' Fediverse platform, it's barely comes close to mainline social media. Should we still make the Fediverse about, user rights, but also make it known that users can still have 'fun' spamming memes, or playing games like in Facebook games, possibly some of them being online(maybe even with federated servers for the same games).

Misskey does have, some games, wish they could continue that trend of adding more games, or even, having some indie devs be able to add some. I really want to see the Fediverse at some point look into federated game chats, that would ensure online games wouldn't die over age over time.

 

[Kimby]

I think that is one of the problems when advertising fedi, usually is presented just as an "alternative" when is used to talk about tw but is weird when it is presented as another social place with many communities (⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠)

 

[emily]

I think that is one of the problems when advertising fedi, usually is presented just as an "alternative" when is used to talk about tw but is weird when it is presented as another social place with many communities (⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠)

Try advertising Lemmy to Reddit users (not tech savvy users), who already have a grasp on communities. They might also get confused. "Why is there another server for the same platform Lemmy/Mastodon?" "why is it so complicated,I need to first find a server to join, how does this work?"

The great and timeless thing about the Fediverse though is it doesn't need to make as much money as possible, it isn't a publicly traded company (the fediverse is public but publicly traded is different for those who might be confused. Public ally traded has to do with investors and not necessarily owning or having complete say at what goes down in your company.). That doesn't mean you might not find a server that *tries this. I don't know any at the top of my head but we've seen such situations in.

If you join a Mastodon server not only is the server, technically private owned, but it's free to use to anyone that wants to sign up and act appropriately, or as expected. The software and interface behind most servers. (if not all for whatever possible reason.) Being that the servers are private owned, you can have all kinds of different servers maintainers doing different concepts and movements with the same software and independent from eachother. If Facebook closes down, that's it. Mastodon rellies on having atleast 1 server maintainers that allows public sign ups. While Facebook relies on the share holders mercy and on company greed/direction.

Explaining this to just anyone is difficult. So at best to simplify it and make it quick on the users, I would just say to them that you own the Social Media apps/website interface. (Mastodon, Misskey etc.). but the server themselves are private owned. Or at the least maintained by a different person then from the next server.