So I am a big fan of the Fediverse, I love the idea of decentralisation and I believe this is how the future of social media should be. But here starts the problem.
All my friends are using Instagram or TikTok or else. I didnt think of that while I also used Instagram, but I think they are highly addicted. Its not possible for them to not use Instagram for at least 1h when we meet up. When I still used Instagram, I was part of the problem. But now that I left it a couple of months ago, I just realised the problem I used to live in.
Addiction is all about realising you are addicted, but I find it very hard to address the problem. I dont want to harm our friendship over social media and I am afraid that when I tell them about their addiction, they will not agree and find it impolite.
So I believe that social media can only survive if the people use it. Its all about user generated content and while the Fediverse is doing better than ever, it still needs more users ASAP.
How can we achieve getting those people on the Fediverse and, more importantly, hold them here, while they slowly get less addicted to social media and see the potential of the Fediverse.
Thank you for reading and for thinking about possible answers. I wrote the whole text by myself, this is not AI generated.
They come in, look at all posts, upvote down vote still see 99% of the content they DGAF about and leave.
* teach them to curate?
* create tech to curate? Starter Packs? Meta Communities?
We've got cats and dogs and mildly interesting and greentext, but the gaming subs are dead, the automotive and sports and will just about any other community a normie would want either don't exist, are squatted on by someone who made them 3 years ago and left or they're owned by one toxic crackpot mod
* If you have any interests or hobbies, it's a good time to start some communities, get a couple people to help content. Maybe borrow some stuff on reddit.
If the come here and they can't find what they want, they'll leave
The curation part may make this a fools errand. They want the doom scroll, unending entertainment on tap. This place isn't like that, it's 2003 in here and we want to read what's new then GTFO and go do something else.
There's also a lot of negativity.
There's a Nintendo community. Obviously people on Lemmy really hate Nintendo, so any meaningful comment is overtaken by negative comments and useless discussion.
It's a more extreme example, but I find the same true for Lemmy as a whole. Sometimes it feels like no fun is allowed.
miserable folks want everyone else to be as miserable or more miserable than them. they can't abide anyone enjoying anything.
It's so funny, I bought a Switch 2 recently, and the amount of vitriolic HATE i get for mentioning that I love and it's great is insane.
apparently unless I build my own PC from dumpster parts and run a hyper specific distro and only run steam linux games, I'm some sort of traitor and horrible ignorant fool. There can't ever be a legit reason to like just want to play fun games w/o being an insufferable superiority twat about it. and anything less than that is 'boot licking' or me being a nazi lover or something.
Everything on here has to be politicized to an absurd extreme, because no fun and happiness is allowed as long as the State of Israel exists, or something.
Yeah, that'll get less if we get more people, but getting more people requires getting that less :)
We're harsh of 'fanboys' 'bootlickers' a lot of people who just see themselves as enthusiasts for a given corporate vector.
Some people love Nintendo for the games and nostalgia and don't place much stock in their litigious history.
We're geeks and often gatekeepers.
Thanks for the reminder to engage in my hobby communities