• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.

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      Except all the people switching to Bluesky?

      The issue isn’t federation, it’s the onboarding and “style” of social media.

      Also I don’t think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren’t on Reddit they aren’t gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.

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        22 hours ago

        My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.

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      As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the “technical” details could

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      Just need to frame it right. Facebook is full of <insert country they don’t like> propaganda, frendica is much harder to not.

      Pixelfed is also good enough that Zuck is actively blocking it, so we’ve got one.