Kate Bowles@kate@aus.social
@lianna@micro.webgarden.click @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I love this story. As a genuine question, I’m thinking about the language used as only suggestive of “nerdy hobbies” instead of, you know, hobbies hobbies. What could have helped?
I’m wondering what will encourage people to know that there are whole communities of hobbyists in here, along with everyone else. I keep hearing “it’s all tech bros” and thinking this is a hard barrier to shift. But we are all here too, the other types.
A new platform can’t do anything about the fact that someone’s friends and family aren’t already here. But there might be other ways to imagine who is here to be found.
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@kate@aus.social @lianna@micro.webgarden.click
I think you just have to do what you can, and accept that you may not reach everyone but you try to reach as many as possible and make it as simple as possible.
The official Mastodon website "solves" this by pretending there is only one server and telling everyone to sign up there, but that destroys the entire point of Mastodon and the Fediverse existing.
So... it's sort of a balancing act where you have to choose the least worst way forward.