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A lot of the advice in this piece is all well and good for tech savvy folks, but what about trying to get Grandma onto some federated social media network. Thi
by Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
A lot of the advice in this piece is all well and good for tech savvy folks, but what about trying to get Grandma onto some federated social media network.
This is all pie in the sky, Facebook has captured the over 35s, Twitter has got the next generation down and TikTok is cleaning up with the under 25s.
Friends and friends networks are too sticky to abruptly just leave.
- fortysixdegrees 4y agoAddressing your point was literally the point of the article
- woojoo666 4y agoThough to be fair it was a bit buried. Another commenter surfaced a relevant quote: > There’s no technical reason that Big Tech can’t directly connect to the Fediverse. The ACCESS Act, a proposed US law, would do just that. The EU has passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which promises to impose interoperability on giant social media platforms…eventually.
- such12 4y agoI just text or FaceTime my relatives who are on Facebook. It works just fine. My mother, who doesn’t even have a cellphone, I call via skype to her landline phone. No problem.
- Kye 4y agoI think you might have your age ranges a bit off.