• gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeEnglish
        301·
        1 year ago

        Once prominent celebrities and more news agencies start to come (and they will, the BBC is a sign of that) the culture will shift faster than you really realize. There is still an insular culture around the fediverse that tends to be a big barrier around entry for “normies” right now. Going on a mastodon instance as a new user with limited technical knowledge can be quite jarring especially if you step out of line of what it seen as culturally fitting for the fediverse

        • Kikkertje@aussie.zoneEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          It’s very much a nerd/geek environment at the moment. There isn’t much for normies to look at…yet.

        • AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is pretty much the prospect of a former Reddit user like myself. I was there for eight years and stepping away from the bubble has not been easy for me. Not great at swiftly navigating the internet. I was used to having been served a whole cake and now I scramble for crumbs. I won’t go back because Reddit was built on the backs of free labor. Due to gilded cage syndrome, Ive bounced from Mastodon to Tildes and now Lemmy.

        • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          BBC R&D is a special case… they’re specifically there to try out new stuff. It isn’t always reflected in the rest of the company. They implemented ipv6 years ago for example, but the main bbc website remains ipv4 only.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        So Green Day want us to wake them up when Usenet is no longer experiencing an influx of new users? 🤨