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[Fediverse] The more people and content creators move to fediverse, the more RSS feeds will be available for people. (lemmy.ml)
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I'm kind of sick of opening my tor browser everyday just for looking at important updates.

luckily if we get more people to join the fediverse, which RSS is an available option by default. in the future I might only need to just open my RSS feeds.

the problem is little to no content creators use the fediverse, even unaware that doing this is a good thing because of "First Mover Advantage". on top of that, unlike that term doing this has no risks involved. you're just expanding your audience.

People around the internet should ask their favorite youtubers and content creators to also use a Mastodon and Peertube account, maybe get them a crossposter software to do everything for them. if that exists.

like you and everyone else, I don't want to rely on big social media corporations to connect with people.

I hope this message gets to somewhere, repost this or tell other's to do the same.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • For the fediverse to grow it needs to think out of the box, offer disruptive means of communications and content distribution to carve it self a significant user base to rival tech giants. for now Fediverse projects lack vision and are stuck developing the technicality without taking a creative approach to its development. TikTok went big because it didn't try to copy Facebook and instagram, but offered a different use model. google circles tried to copy facebook, and dispite googles huge userbase it failed.
  • For the fediverse to grow and maintain a sustainable user base it needs exclusive content, which content creators aren't willing to make for free, they are more likely to put in the effort for platforms that reward their handwork like Patreon than a wild distributed one like Peertube.
  • 99% percent of content creation these days is done with the intent of making profit. so it is hard to convince creators to invest time and money into maintaining instances that will bring them no more than croutons.
  • I think it will be hard for the Fedivrese to out grow the niche audience of tech savvy people, and refugee comunities.
    But lets keep positive and keep encouraging the development!
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

For the fediverse to grow it needs to think out of the box, offer disruptive means of communications and content distribution to carve it self a significant user base to rival tech giants. for now Fediverse projects lack vision and are stuck developing the technicality without taking a creative approach to its development. TikTok went big because it didn’t try to copy Facebook and instagram, but offered a different use model. google circles tried to copy facebook, and dispite googles huge userbase it failed.

This is what I really agree with, also we really need the steve jobs of fediverse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

basically, the fediverse either needs advertisers or some groundbreaking tech/concept which will provide a revenue stream for content creators and revenue seekers.