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@Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable
I'm not even talking about "change" just basic outreach. It's not that hard to use the fedi once you get in and the learning hump is less than some other social media in some ways. You see the people you follow. It's less mysterious. There aren't ads distracting you.
I no longer think design choices are the major problem. It's a combination of culture and simply not being a corporation or something that can get an investment hype cycle.
@Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable
People learn to use terrible UI all the time. It's not good to dismiss complaints about UI, because that's insular. And the insular quality isn't very welcoming.
But email remains a dominant force in communication. If email were invented today everyone would have to use gmail or not be able to email someone not on the same service. A few crazy people would talk about "open email" and try to get people to try it.
@Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable
But, depending on how things developed those "crazy people" could win. It's just a matter of if anyone thinks it's important.
I think social media is VERY important and I realize that not everyone shares this view. I also think it's never going away. It will be a tool that empowers people or it could be a powerful tool to control people. (or a mix of both) But it will be *something* either way.
It's up to us what.
@futurebird
If anyone thinks it's important is the key. I try to get people to use signal instead of SMS/text. Most people just don't get why I think it's so important. Most people are ignorant of the issues it addresses. Most people don't have a couple weeks to invest in understanding just how important cryptographic security is at so many levels.
Similarly with Fediverse. Protocols not platforms is a deeply powerfully resonant topic
@Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable
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But it doesn't even make it into the first 1000 pages of things a randomly selected person off the street cares about. So. It's hard inherently.
@Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable
@futurebird @Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable I mean, that's not a hypothetical for email. That's how it's worked for at least the past decade: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
I've run my own email since 2013 (these days only for Debian stuff, all my personal email is on fastmail) and the promise of openness and decentralization was basically never there in practice. I've written a bunch of threads about this problem.
@ehashman @futurebird @Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable we do, however, think that that's entirely compatible with the theory that it's about culture and about not being able to out-spend a corporate marketing team
3946] @futurebird @Jackiemauro @servingworlds @eosfpodcast @HumToTable most people don't find anything wrong in Outlook 