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How to get non technical friends in the fediverse? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ben@ly.eok.me to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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So I am a big fan of the Fediverse, I love the idea of decentralisation and I believe this is how the future of social media should be. But here starts the problem.

All my friends are using Instagram or TikTok or else. I didnt think of that while I also used Instagram, but I think they are highly addicted. Its not possible for them to not use Instagram for at least 1h when we meet up. When I still used Instagram, I was part of the problem. But now that I left it a couple of months ago, I just realised the problem I used to live in.

Addiction is all about realising you are addicted, but I find it very hard to address the problem. I dont want to harm our friendship over social media and I am afraid that when I tell them about their addiction, they will not agree and find it impolite.

So I believe that social media can only survive if the people use it. Its all about user generated content and while the Fediverse is doing better than ever, it still needs more users ASAP.

How can we achieve getting those people on the Fediverse and, more importantly, hold them here, while they slowly get less addicted to social media and see the potential of the Fediverse.

Thank you for reading and for thinking about possible answers. I wrote the whole text by myself, this is not AI generated.

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[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its not possible for them to not use Instagram for at least 1h when we meet up.

I don't use Instagram, so what does using Instagram mean?

Do they browse Instagram, liking and commenting on things? It's difficult to leave Instagram if the things they want to see don't exist elsewhere.

Do they take pictures and share them with friends? Because that's easier to move if the content moves.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago

No, they just scroll reels endlessly. Like TikTok. It's a plague, short videos are addictive.

[-] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Motivation will be the big challenge, for the technical aspect I like to recommend di.day for simple 'switch recipes' for many things tech

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

If your friends are largely into TikTok or Instagram, they're not going to switch to the Fediverse.

Reddit and Twitter have viable fediverse equivalents. There are none for short-form video. Peertube is awash in low quality content and Pixelfed might prove an alternative if one is willing to spend six months building up 1000+ follows.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bro, after being here for quite a while. Most of the people here are nontechnical. They couldn't actually do much more tech then the average person. And the bitch like no where else.

Enjoy!

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hoooo boy. I've been asking this for ages. It's INSANELY hard. I don't think it's possible actually. Normies gonna norm, and they're gonna use "what everyone else uses".

Until zucc climbs through their window to take a video of them performing a circus act for "age verification" in order to use their social media platform, people are never going to embrace the weird, scary, darkweb fediverse.

[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 weeks ago

As for Pixelfed:

It's like Instagram but you actually have agency over your content and you're not at the whim of Meta's corporate censorship.

[-] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Addiction … you can get that with any kind of social media. The Fediverse is no exception.

Easiest way is probably to find the Fediverse services that are most interesting to them, show them and explain how the Fediverse works. But even within the Fediverse many services don’t communicate much with each other. I know bunch of people IRL who are on Mastodon, but I don’t think I know anybody on Lemmy … at least not in the communities I interact most with.

[-] expect_nothing@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I’m a pretty active poster & reader over on Mastodon and think the Fediverse is neat. That said, people who share my interests (vintage signage, 1970s punk rock / new wave, old monster movies, etc.) pretty much only hang out on Instagram, and do all their image sharing and commenting over there. The more general “this is my lifestyle” people head where the action is, and it ain’t here.

[-] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

There is a kind of network effect or massive synergies to being "the app" for a certain topic. E.g. you can't split up a social network into multiple competitors to break a monopoly. It takes huge investment in marketing budges and content creation to make people change, like what they did with tiktok (paid content creators big bucks).

[-] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 2 weeks ago

Follow all the steps in https://runyourown.social/ , whether you run your own instance or not. The fediverse is fundamentally a reimagination of our social links, so it's the occasion to do things differently. Get your friends together in a room and create accounts for each other, browse together, show each other what you discover. Create a private community just for your group to exchange stuff in there that on. This is a social "job" and it needs people keeping it alive, that is you in the beginning before the whole fediverse can do it