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"I didn't let that stop me. Network effects are no excuse."
Except that they kind of are in the context of exposing someone to an entirely new system that they may neither know about nor care about.
I view this as a similar situation to getting my friends to try GNU/Linux. Most people cannot stick with it because the experience is unfamiliar to them, and they can't run their preferred programs that they are used to.
@deadsuperhero@starbreaker Many people are unwilling and/or unable to move platforms. You can try asking others in your life to move to the Fediverse,-but a great deal of them may choose not to.
In my case, only one other person moved to the Fediverse with me...and if I'm to be honest, he had some history in other Instances before I invited them to Octodon.
Also, I'm only here because @KyokiKafuka invited me...and she's only here because someone invited her. Inviting people DOES work.
Something I would like to try again sometime soon would be to invite a handful of people who all know each other, and facilitate them connecting together on one specific instance. I could try to point them to the best mobile apps that I know of, and try to make the process of getting started really easy.
No guarantee that it'd work, but I think it would give the participants more reason to engage than just stumbling onto a completely unfamiliar space
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@ayachan @starbreaker @KyokiKafuka
Something I would like to try again sometime soon would be to invite a handful of people who all know each other, and facilitate them connecting together on one specific instance. I could try to point them to the best mobile apps that I know of, and try to make the process of getting started really easy.
No guarantee that it'd work, but I think it would give the participants more reason to engage than just stumbling onto a completely unfamiliar space