On one hand, you’ll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you’ll never be able to convince your parents to switch!

Xkcd 918

No one CEO can ruin it.

Right now we’re seeing a cycle of people jumping ship from one corporate-owned platform to another, until that new platform inevitably turns to shit. But as long as people keep doing that, corporate-owned platforms will inevitably turn to shit. The only true solution is to cut corporations out of the picture with platforms that are designed to be unruinable.

No ads is a monumental reason to join

Because they were banned from Reddit for saying that “If you have the chance to punch a Nazi, you should always punch the Nazi.” 😅

I can’t give you sources or scientific evidence but I can give you my top 3 reasons apart of the obvious:

• no Ads and corporate accounts (At this point in time)
• less but better content + conversations
• it’s more healthy for my brain… less rage- and clickbait or Self-playing videos

To be fair these will all be gone when there is more popularity

It’s constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos’ are being spun up every day.

It’s wrong to propose it as something to “join” or a movement or an idea. Just tell the facts about it. People get turned off on “joining” things. Fediverse is going to be slandered in the media very soon as people like John Oliver cover it. So turning it into some kind of movement especially a “left” movement will keep droves of people away. When I left reddit and came to lemmy it was because I was tired of the old thing and wanted a new thing. That’s it. The other stuff that makes fediverse great was a bonus but I didn’t join for some idealogy reason.

Sell the facts leave out everything else.

Need to get your own links lil bro we can’t do your homework for you lol. Nice try though.

If you use Reddit, but don’t like the direction it’s going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it’s harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.

“last week tonight” just published an episode on that topic

Because everyone miss the old OpenWeb ! We don’t like closed API ! We don’t like opaque and imposed algorithmes ! We don’t like centralized closed plateform ! We don’t want to be enslave to create data. We don’t want their addicting mechanism, digitalizing heroin. We don’t want blockchains to record every interractions we have !

All we want is Web0 ! And the Fediverse might be part of this better Open Web.

Its free and fun

Do you like communism? Scratch that, do you like China? Then Lemmy is perfect for you!

Good luck with “exhaustive” because people have different unique reasons to come to the fediverse. It would be a very long list.

For the average user I’d approach it with points that affects everyone:

• We can’t have a Twitter-style take over
• We can’t have a Reddit API disaster
• It’s distributed so while parts of the fediverse come and go, you’ll never lose the platform as a whole.
• It’s distributed geographically so one hostile country can’t silence information from other countries like Facebook and Twitter are doing.
• No algorithms designed to keep you scrolling forever
• No ads or commercial content being pushed by the algorithm
• Loads of choices for instances and moderation style for everyone’s taste.
• Users get to choose how they want to browse and with which apps: you’re not stuck with the latest crappy redesign you hate. You’ll never be forced to have reels and stories in your feed if you don’t want that.
• Not controlled by big corporations like Meta and Google, but rather the community for the community.
• If you have sensitive communities you can own the servers to ensure it’s survival in situations where Facebook would immediately ban that page/group.
• No bullshit AI products shoved in your face like Grok or Reddit Answers.
• You as a user are in control of what you see and don’t see.
• No advertiser friendly content policies forcing you to use stupid words like “unalive”, “pewpew”, “corn” or algorithmic downprioritization because you swore.
• If you prefer to browse Instagram-like, you still get to see Twitter-like post, and you friends can see your photos from a Twitter-like interface. Or you can have a Twitter-like interface and interact with Reddit-like posts on Lemmy.

It’s harder to onboard and figure out by the common people but it would be the final platform switch. You may move instances over time but you will never be left looking for a new platform because the old one enshittified. You just move to an instance that hasn’t, done.

The fediverse is the public commons of the internet; a truly democratic institutional framework unlike any commercial alternative. It is the 21st century internet of the present and the future.

I usually just show them videos/videos without the Algorithm and a couple come on over. We also have !aww@lemmy.world and that helps.

Instead of trying to sell the Fediverse, I just sell the site without any ads. Quite a few are interested. Then I post on discord on different sources. A couple have come around. They technically dont know they are on the fedi.