It’s pretty likely they’ve heard of it as a niche option, as a forgettable factoid years ago.
Then they may also have learned it’s a very small platform and something about decentralization.
if they went to sign up regardless, it seems likely they didn’t end up picking an instance. (Possibly having left the page open, briefly looked up Mastodon instances and read a few sentences, then moved on to something else.)
Now that they wouldn’t have had to pick an instance, they’ve long forgotten about it, maybe you could get them to try the normalized sign up process.
But anyone who knows anything about people knew from the start that Mastodon wasn’t really even aiming for successful growth. Of course the instances were gonna be a roadblock.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Exactly. We need to get really obnoxious with the promotion
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe juuuuust shy of obnoxious.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
no, full obnoxious until people start to get angry, then stop entirely
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And then, for the coup de grace, immediately deny that there even is or was ever such a social network, and insist it was another one of their “wacky dreams”. And then later, they come to you to prove you wrong.
Boom. Incepted.