Global Switch Day - Join The Fediverse
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Today is Global Switch Day for the Fediverse, and to be honest it surprised me after waking up and seeing @[email protected] posting about it. Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon I follow Dan closely due to his work on PixelFed & Loops, amazing platforms that has been
  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    The single most common excuse for not shifting to the Fediverse has been in my experience, “I can’t leave because everyone is still there.” I’ve been dragging encouraging people to move towards Signal and the Fediverse for years now. Gentle persistence appears to be the way.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      1 day ago

      That’s exactly what I’m getting, too - the “collective action” problem Doctorow talks about. I managed to make a single person use it alongside WhatsApp, and… that’s it.

      I’m trying to remember how people migrated from ICQ to MSN Messenger to WhatsApp.