This is a follow-up from my previous thread.
The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon.
The reasons, summarised by @noodlejetski@lemm.ee are:
- marketing
- not having to pick the instance when registering
- people who have experienced Mastodon’s hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
- algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
- marketing
and I’m saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer.
Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this.
How do we get “normies” to adopt the Fediverse?
The users with PDS use something like @user.domain.com. Users with just @domain.com are under Bluesky IIRC.
Wait
I have yet to see someone with @user.domain.com, do you have an example?
Oops, I misunderstood how it works. You can add subdomains as your handle.
I thought subdomains were people using PDS. So I don’t know anyone running a PDS. I might try running one just to see what it’s like and actually learn the network.
But here’s an example of @user.domain.com: https://bsky.app/profile/tomoshika.voms.net
I don’t think they’re using a PDS though. In fact, it’s really hard to tell who’s using a PDS or not. I’m not sure what the effect of this is in community-building and I wonder if control over the network is really decentralized. This is really… confusing.
Anyway, the PDS is a lot more complicated than I thought: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/category/advanced-guides
Thank you for your comment!
Yes it is confusing, and looks falsely decentralized, but actually centralized