My main reason is that I don’t give a fuck about the person behind the content in most cases. Other sites put a much larger emphasis on following content creators, not content categories.
I just tell them I don’t have any social media at all. Im not gonna start explaining lemmy or even reddit for that matter to someone who was asking for socials like insta and fb.
Idk if I count because I use Tumblr regularly, but I never warmed up to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat (I do use Instagram to find tattoo artists occasionally tho).
Personally I just hate how posting to some social media feels like having to put on a mask, or how performative it is. That and the constant toxicity and negativity. It’s bad for me, mentally, so I don’t engage anymore. (Tumblr is the exception because my dashboard is exactly what I want and makes me happy.)
The anonymity of the Internet brings out the worst in people, the connectivity means I see every single bad thing that happens in the world. Bad for the brain.
Personally, I’ve found Reddit now Lemmy to be better than other social media because the focus is on the content rather than the poster.
Instead of following individual people, you follow topics. This encourages more quality content rather than personal clout
I don’t. This battle is lost.
Feels like it indeed. Just wanted to find some compelling arguments to spread the word of lemmy because I think it is awesome and the fediverse should be the future of social media and internet.
You think its awesome. Play on this.
Ideology often, isnt an argument for them. Restrain, boycott, minimalism, theses are not in their vocabulary I guess.
They want the cool stuff. They are consumers to act like that.
Example: Regarding /r/piracy, you can say original creators moved on Lemmy. Not why. And now /c/piracy is the “place to be” to have last news, features etc and /r/piracy decline very fast in quality. And there is nothing to learn anymore on it.
But just to say, dude, have faith. You brave to want convince them. Force and honor on you. But don’t break your mind ^^
Regarding me, I’ve struggled a lot to make some of my contacts move on signal. Even they knew I just have that, Wasn’t enough. Then I’ve just said, I just have signal, its enough for me not because of ideology but because I don’t see the interest in others apps because I can have groups chat, video chat, instant messaging with it. In great quality. And the application do not DRAIN my battery’s cells (never had them but I’m sure they do. Analytics baby) . That’s helped a lot more to help them move 😂
