With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!!

[anja@chaos.social]

@douglasthiel @taylorlorenz Agree, just think of what the prefix mast(o)- can remind female users of.

[mamalake@beige.party]

@taylorlorenz one of the big reasons people stay on corp(s) media is because they are running their businesses there. Small businesses, crafters etc make a ton of sales through tiktok/IG. Leaving their audience is akin to leaving their businesses. I love mastodon! But I can't sell anything without getting blocked or reported.

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz A lot of good points here, so won’t repeat them. But to put it simple, and citing The Matrix, it’s a red pill, blue pill situation: red pill, you jump on the Fediverse, and take part in a new concept of social media. No corporations, no algorithm, no tracking, no centralized servers. Blue pill, you stay in corporate controlled land, with the algorithm and ad tracking cookies. You’ll keep yelling at bots and bigots. So, their choice.

[bitpickup@troet.cafe]

@OrionKidder
> "Refuse" implies she has a responsibility to do it

Implies it for you.
That's fine with me.

> Setting up an instance takes time

Time is money.

> technical skill,

Not any more.

> and money.

Much less than you think.
~6 bucks a month is actually an amount of money anyone should be willing to spend to support, the ownership of your very own data, your re contacts, your independence an democracy itself.

If freeriding suits you, that's your choice.

@taylorlorenz

[whiza@theforkiverse.com]

@taylorlorenz time and user counts. If more content creators swap it'll change the landscape a bit but also give it the cred.

[elpolacodesplegado@hessen.social]

@stefan
You cannot monetize your work on the Fediverse the same way you can in Musk's "environment". Therefore this will likely remain a comparably small community.
@T_X @taylorlorenz

[bsm@swiss.social]

@taylorlorenz People are too lazy and too comfortable, it's as simple as that.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@anja @taylorlorenz Advertising is the way. I didn't know about it until my brothers found out somehow, but its not like there's many advertisements for Mastodon like there is for Facebook.

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@taylorlorenz

Inertia and uncertainty?

They are used to what they're currently doing and there's not enough public knowledge about Fediverse and Mastodon so they don't have an informed opinion.

I often tell people what I found on Mastodon and share articles and suggest that they join. They never do. All it took to get me on Mastodon was musk buying Twitter.

I've got friends who are far more progressive and leftist than me who are still using Facebook and Instagram. I get it. I gave up access to multiple artists whose work I enjoyed because I left Instagram. I have no idea what's happening with much of my extended family because I left Facebook. Some people are not willing to give it up.

[girlcnz@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz new user here. i like it already lol.

[bitpickup@troet.cafe]

@OrionKidder
> Nobody owes any of that to the world.

The world doesn't owe to anyone anything.

You do not support free press, freedom of speech, a decentralized system, nor democracy itself by free riding on other peoples business models, or by recreating continuously dependency relationships with others who sooner or later will enshitify the setup and there for your life because you handed them that option in the first place by depending on them.

@taylorlorenz

[jsatk@sfba.social]

@OrionKidder @taylorlorenz I haven’t made a new account in awhile so I suspect you’re right. I do know the maintainers are very open to suggestions.

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@taylorlorenz
At this point? Fully automated migration. Let me explain:

- i want my aunt to join
- i send her an invite link over whatsapp (urgh)
- she gets the option to do full auto migration by providing her current profile link on facebook, twitter, instagram whatever

where applicable, also optional
- copies bio, nick, media
- crawls the profile, pulls contacts and suggests them on the fedi
- reposts x time of posts unlisted not to spam the local feed
- posts a link to new profile on fb

[floppa@fedi.catto.garden]

@taylorlorenz nyarrrr, maybe an idiot proof app would help?

[mamalake@beige.party]

@morgan @taylorlorenz some instances forbid sales, and many people just don't want to be advertised to.

[nachtschicht@kirche.social]

@taylorlorenz

Use it & Spread the word

[riccardomilan@mastodon.uno]

@taylorlorenz Very often, it's a matter of not knowing the platform and ignoring the benefits of a decentralized social network, without algorithms, advertising, or profiling, and above all, with a real chronological timeline. When people begin to understand this, they'll realize the benefits. It's just a matter of time.

[amazing_joeyy@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz I just joined and I have no idea what I’m doing. So, there’s that.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@taylorlorenz Perhaps nothing needs to be changed and Mastodon's strength lies precisely in its decentralised nature and the abundance of choice it offers. As the saying goes, good wine needs no bush. Slowly but surely, the number is growing.

[dressfleech@social.cologne]

@douglasthiel @taylorlorenz I also believe that the solution is that simple.