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> How do you get the majority of people to switch to something like this? This is really the wrong focus. Everyone should be focused on how to "mainstream" th
by riffic 5y ago
> How do you get the majority of people to switch to something like this?
This is really the wrong focus.
Everyone should be focused on how to "mainstream" this in the minds of content creators, organizations, institutions, and media. The audience will find these subjects because they have a certain gravity to attract followers.
This is why, in my mind, if the federated open web wants to "succeed" (spoilers, it hasn't failed at all and it's a spectacularly organic ecosystem. Everyone's just using the wrong definition of success), it needs to start demanding for these mainstream content creators to publish to the open web by way of standardized protocols. Especially any groups that take public money or hold special permission to use public airwaves (licensing).
- swalsh 5y agoFocus on small communities, not lots of large communities.
- riffic 5y agoI mean, that's valid as well. Each "influencer" or "big account" on existing services is in a way its own community.
- itake 5y agochicken or the egg? Why would a content creator, org, institution, and media use a new app with no users? All of the above publish to twitter because Twitter's "bizarre techniques to keep you addicted" and "doesn't show an actual historical feed from people you follow"
- riffic 5y agoyou know, there are a lot of interesting parallels with the early adoption of the internet. I remember back in the 90s there was a time when no one had their own web site, but you couldn't listen to 15 minutes of news without someone telling you their AOL "keyword". Things are very similar today, in a way.