I think the idea of federated social media itself would have made fediverse sky rocket itself. bloggers tooters and video creators or any kind of internet user can connect with eachother here. but that hasn’t happened. not at least yet. so why?
what are the problems. or what things are missing on the fediverse that makes it still so unpopular?
I’m sure the common misconception of “it’s a ghost town” kind of feeds a cycle that keeps a lot of people from joining, especially concerning Mastodon/Pleroma here. I think it’s just gonna be really slow but steady growth until either a certain threshold is reached or one of the proprietary silos spark another big controversy. The only thing I think is missing is diversity in content as most people here (including me) are just interested in software and technology, so I’m really thankful when a community pops up about something completely different.
The type of content available is a bit narrow indeed, but I don’t see how it would appear as a “ghost town”. Lots of activity on the Fediverse.
When I talk to “normal” people about alternative services like the Fediverse, I mostly get “huh? never heard of it” coupled with a mostly implied “ah ok, just another website, why should I care?” kind of attitude. And for that there really isn’t a quick fix, it will just take time.
yeah people can’t fathom that there might be a internet community out there that caters to them, where they maybe take ownership, have maybe democratic say in their instance - a space so different to all the corporate website that they know otherwise.
I think I can agree on this one. been looking for writers on fediverse. real ones that makes novels and such. it seems that if mastodon has community groups that users from other instances can join. that can fix isolated communities and users especially if they are on single user instances.