Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?
Billionares with mega yacht fleets are choosing bluesky over mastodon.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Centralized and private = enshitification
Self hosted and federated = not prone to enshitification
Idk how simple it has to be for people but clearly I’m over estimating people
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay. Now, explain the concept of enshitification. And do it using terms that regular folk won’t find crass.
You know how conservatives live in this bubble where they don’t even see their racism because it’s so normalized? We’re interacting within a bubble where everyone has a very high level of technical competence versus the average person, so we fail to understand just how tech illiterate others are.
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
Not just tech illiterate but also advertising illiterate. The regular folks I know seem happy to wade through endless platform ads and influencer sales pitches. Enshittification can really be a slowly boiling frog type scenario.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Company focus on profit. even if mean overall experience get not gooder
I dumbed it down to caveman speech for those that still wouldn’t understand. It’s a simple concept all of use that have used the Internet in the past year have experienced.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The usual suspects couldnt care less. The more convenient it is the better. No matter how bad the future wil be.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
elon musk bought twitter and turned it to shit (or even more shit). elon (or someone else) could do that with Bluesky too, but can’t with Mastodon.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So that’s impossible with the fediverse? No way a company like Meta could have a fediverse platform?