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Why should someone join the Fediverse?


I want to write an article that answers the question ‘Why should YOU join the Fediverse?’, which would basically be an exhaustive list of arguments for joining the Fediverse, each argument linked to an article/publication that illustrates it. I'll translate it into several languages.

Can you help me?

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don't like this

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Because you're sick of being toyed with by billionaire's algorithms designed to wring everything last drop out of you they can.
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The fediverse is the public commons of the internet; a truly democratic institutional framework unlike any commercial alternative. It is the 21st century internet of the present and the future.
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This sounds more like a dreaded VC pitch! (But true in substance.)
in reply to JubilantJaguar

It is the principal fulcrum to leverage the masses, stated simply enough for most to understand.
in reply to retiolus

The Fediverse is diverse. Do you want something looking like the original Instagram? We've got it. Just a Twitter-clone (without algorithms)? We got it too. Something like Reddit? Sure thing, why not! Something to track your books with? Yeah, that's around as well. Something doesn't exist yet? Don't worry, it eventually will! 😋

And the fun thing... Most of the platforms can interact with each other since they speak mostly the same language on the same network! You don't like the interface of Mastodon? No worries, go use Misskey or Akkoma or whatever! Mastodon-users will still be able to read your posts! No more moving to a nicer looking platform and finding out that all your followers have to move along too or you'd be shouting all alone into the void!

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Just don't tell 'em all that or they'll never come.
in reply to JubilantJaguar

Yeah the best campaigns I've seen for the Fediverse were reactionary to something happening on big socials: Lemmy when the API fiasco happened, Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, recently Pixelfed to replace Instagram, and Loops the last 2 weeks before TikTok was about to get banned.

People don't change because it's better, they change because they're pissed off at their current platform.

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I can host it and have 100% what I consume and who I don’t interact with.
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I usually just show them videos/videos without the Algorithm and a couple come on over. We also have !aww@lemmy.world and that helps.

Instead of trying to sell the Fediverse, I just sell the site without any ads. Quite a few are interested. Then I post on discord on different sources. A couple have come around. They technically dont know they are on the fedi.

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in reply to retiolus

Yeeeah, if you have to write a network of interconnected arguments in multiple languages the answer you're transmitting may not be the one you want.

Federated apps and communities may be better off spending more effort working to be appealing and less explaining why they think they already are.

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Star Trek memes. I didn't even know I liked Star Trek until 2 years ago.
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Because the Fediverse is the exclusive home to my confusing but entertaining long winded rants. Look, I bought a great keyboard, and when I get home, I just like typing. So I shut my brain off and just GO OFF on someone, or some situation. My fingers get to type and type and type on a keyboard which I can only describe as "pleasurable".

Usually the rants are just me taking some minor thing I noticed or had happen to me and doing a deep dive rant. Just letting my inner monologue out into the world in text form. Or maybe an idea I have. I think my posts in /r/crazyideas are my favorite.

Here's a taste of me trying to buy hot chocolate.

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The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn't that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it's that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

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Do you like communism? Scratch that, do you like China? Then Lemmy is perfect for you!
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Because they were banned from Reddit for saying that “If you have the chance to punch a Nazi, you should always punch the Nazi.” 😅
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It's constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos' are being spun up every day.
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No one CEO can ruin it.

Right now we're seeing a cycle of people jumping ship from one corporate-owned platform to another, until that new platform inevitably turns to shit. But as long as people keep doing that, corporate-owned platforms will inevitably turn to shit. The only true solution is to cut corporations out of the picture with platforms that are designed to be unruinable.

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If you use Reddit, but don't like the direction it's going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it's harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.