20h ago

Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

More from the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo

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Here's a Peertube mirror, timestamped at the shout-out to Mastodon and Peertube:
https://peertube2.cpy.re/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS?start=25m14s

why is always Bluesky on top of these lists, better marketing?
- Better marketing, better UI, lots of users, and plenty of non-political content.
  
  Fediverse is intimidating to normies.
  
  What's non-political content, Lemmy?
- It's Twitter 2.0. It's what the average person wants. It's popular because it has algorithms and all the other addictive things from corporate social media.
  Mastodon and others don't have these things and are harder to get started with. Picking a server is weird and scary. After that, getting your home feed started is difficult if you don't know to just follow some hashtags.
  
  Picking a server is weird and scary.
  As a scientist, I would be cautious of inferring the reason and beating ourselves up for it until we have crystal clear proof that that is the specific thing that's turning people away.
  
  Even then like, I don't know. I don't want my feed to be strictly chronological. For stuff like Twitter-likes and TikTok-likes I want an algorithm. I don't want to be on there all the time, and I don't want it to be my only form of social media. But when I do go on there I want an algorithm to serve me some slop that I don't even know that I want but actually do.
  
  Plus, you could pick a server that quashes free speech (looking at you .world)
  (Yes. I know I’m guilty too)
- Yes.
  It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn't really any choice).
  
  exactly, it’s not even federated but gets listed among the federated ones and your average bob would think they’re all the same 🤦‍♂️
- In November last year, Bluesky had more than 3 million daily users in the US alone. According to fedidb, the Fediverse as a whole has 1.5 million monthly users globally.
  
  Damn given that Bluesky has millions to burn on marketing I would say the Fediverse is clowning on Bluesky seeing as it the Fediverse has a $0 marketing budget.
  For all the money and prestige Bluesky has access to, they still have only managed to double our size? That is kind of sad really, it must be because they keep adding things people actually don't want.
  
  Bluesky could really do us a favour and turn on ActivityPub
  
  Just FYI, fedidb is wildly wrong on the numbers lately. You may want a different source.
  For example, there are instances on GoToSocial that have 2-3 users showing up with thousands on fedidb EX: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/s.scintilla.social. And some lemmy servers show up multiple times on their statistics.
- Easier to set up/use, more familiar, way more users currently.

was hoping it verbal mention but was a screenshot, still feels good being recognized

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