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

[amazing_mmoia@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz .. it’s all about interactive communication.. people want a news feed page where they can share an opinion of feelings and thoughts and have it available to interact.. Facebook is very good doing so, that is why it is so popular.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@Jamoteusz @taylorlorenz

And yet folks spend inordinate amounts of time and effort on SEO and complex strategies to spoof the algorithms to promote their content.

[andreasenglert@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz I believe the problem is that there is not a lot of information about Mastodon. I just joined yesterday because I wanted to get away from TikTok and just happened to stumble upon this platform by searching for No Tracking Social Media.

[martlund@mastodon.online]

@taylorlorenz Maybe too confusing to know which one, since there are so many

[andrei_chiffa@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz transparency/trust on legal & effective free speech protection; commercial content instances (de)-federation; lack of visibility for famous accounts; lack of context for posts; lack of any algorithm.

And additionally the fact that commercial social media to everything to maximize engagement and time on the platform, while Mastodon tries to keep the protocol and the initial instance up, running, and minimally sane.

[chris_colvin@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz honestly, the people that love (are addicted to?) Tiktok and Instagram *want* an algorithm feeding them, or at least want the option. Additionally, Mastodon simply doesn't have the same addiction-based behavioral design... When most of your time is spent reading text or viewing a static image, the endorfin hit is just much smaller and spread out. In that way neither does Twitter, but the last ingredient is siloed rage. Fewer people with more consistent views means less excitement.

[glamcode@openbiblio.social]

@taylorlorenz We should market the Fediverse as fun, not only as virtuous. It’s like praising your fruit as „healthy“. True, but I buy where it says „sweet“

I think the #Forkiverse got this right.

And, as always, do write alt-texts, do not harass new users who don’t.

[nikkinoir@theforkiverse.com]

@taylorlorenz the network effect, for sure
Big fan of your yt channel btw

[utopiarte@tupambae.org]

@AndreasEnglert
The missing information you are talking about is filtered out actively by the platforms you were using for more than a decade at this stage.
Post it yourself and you'll see the mafia acting in plain sight restricting your access to your contacts.

@taylorlorenz

[omartwotone@ioc.exchange]

@taylorlorenz
in a brief explanation: It's a matter of breaking the habits by themselves...

[sven222@soc.hardwarepunk.de]

@taylorlorenz Maybe telling the people that we have the fediverse with all it's possibilities and that it is more then Mastodon? That it is a real network and not an app?

[janikvonrotz@fosstodon.org]

@taylorlorenz Explain that the Fediverse cannot be bought by some tech bro millionaire. It is ours.

[aysc@mastodon.social]

@sven222 You're responding to a Mastodon instance. Stay out of the conversation.

[danielswann@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz this is very chicken/egg, but I think it needs a more heterogenous user base. if you’re into programming or leftish politics, there are many users to engage with. if you’re looking for discourse around a major sport like football/soccer, there’s almost nothing here.

[petr90@mastodonczech.cz]

@taylorlorenz

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@janikvonrotz @taylorlorenz good point, but most of the users really don't care, they don't care their pictures are free use for big tech, they don't care that Meta AI is learning on pictures of their kids, learning on text statuses, etc. Now #Fediverse is not easy to discover, not easy to find friends, less users and less topics to discuss. I happy to be here and selfhosting my server, but it will need more work to be done to be competitive!

[sven222@soc.hardwarepunk.de]

@aysc This post is sent to the complete Fediverse, shoiuld I write "stay out of the fediverse"? No, I see a great fortune in the fediverse, and that you can convince a lot of people to come here by shownig them the oportunitys. People understand that it is not another app, but a complete real network. It is a possibility to show people that are not loocking for a X replacement, that there is peertube and pixelfeed and friendica. Why do you want to keep your network mastodon only?

[andyinabox@mastodon.social]

@OrionKidder @bitpickup @taylorlorenz it is definitely NOT going to help if we put the onus on new users to run/moderate their own instances (even if we have turnkey solutions for this).

The people I talk to mostly complain that Mastodon seems "too complicated", and the idea that you are obligated to run your own instance is not going to help that.

Eventually some may recognize its in their interest to do so, but we need to LOWER the perceived barrier to entry, not raise it.

[ryebreadnyc@fosstodon.org]

@NicksWorld @anja @taylorlorenz reading through this thread and I think we need more things to make it seem cool. Marketing is a good idea. Also, I don’t know how easy it is to build on top of mastodon’s API, my understanding of twitter’s initial rise was openness of the api and the developer ecosystem that created was a big part of adding cool new features.

[tommyp180@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz I think ultimately it boils down to the crux of human nature; being in groups. On Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc., you'll find that's where most of your family and friends are and so naturally it's very hard to migrate to a newer, "unknown" platform. Do we remember how hard it was to get a parent, or grandparent, on Facebook? History repeats itself like that, except this time, we're the boomers!