samxavia

samxavia , 3 months ago to asklemmy

@asklemmy What do you think it would take for people to drop Twitter & Reddit and move to the Fediverse?

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Hopefully people will as I hate switching between different platforms and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy the fediverse

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Yes I’ll stay active in as many places as I can on here especially when I know a topic. Even better now I’ve worked out a way to interact with people on Lemmy through Mastodon

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Yeah it would just be nice to have some more niche communities being run. Maybe I should help start those niche communities or something but I’m not really using Lemmy anymore but still love browsing the content

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Yeah people like that would help greatly even if it’s just for the Reddit like experience they used to get where users can just post to you as a creator

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Would it be best for Bluesky to then take all the celebs & public figures and work out a bridge between protocols, making it hopefully possible to see their stuff on Mastodon and other places?

As users can then choose if they want to use Mastodon or another alternative like Bluesky.

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Yes, ActivityPub 2.0 is working on that from what I can see. It would be really cool to see how that turns out. Bluesky's not using the same protocols though, so unsure how they are going to fix with all of that.

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

There's plenty of Celebs & public figures using Bluesky, as that's how they started growing their platform originally.

There's also Threads that have more Celebs & public figures including Bill Gates. So I guess Threads might be the way they will publicly get in on the Fediverse. That's when they actually fully flesh their ActivityPub stuff and publicly release it.

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

As of last November 2 Million users. What compared to the rest of the Fediverse that's very few.

https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-2-million-users-public-interface

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Yeah, well, at least it's said to have that many active users but logging in once in a month to check 1 post. So less than 10 seconds on the website / app counts as active.

I'm sure it's slightly inflated. Hopefully indie developers and other smaller public figures come across.

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

That might take a while with all 2 million of them lol

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Threads is instagrams version of mastodon / twitter. Even know you can login with instagram it does bring it mainstream

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

I know I’d at least like all my contacts using the fediverse as I hate having to switch apps to see what people are up to.

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Currently no, but protocols and things are being worked on including one by the PixelFed creator called Sup!. Maybe one day we will have a good messaging system between the fediverse.

The easiest thing to use what isn’t decentralised but is secure would be Signal for the moment. Especially as they rolled out usernames instead of using your phone number

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

Easier to get fediverse users on there over everyone else from what I’ve found. People can be stubborn

samxavia OP , 3 months ago

It's a similar dream I have. People need to jump ship and go towards the Alternatives.