I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    Definitely a trend on the fediverse is that conversations really seem to always drift back to Linux and FOSS applications. Like can we just stop talking about how Microsoft is the devil for 5 minutes? The please no talk about how capitalism/google/apple/bermuda grass lawns are the devil either

    • jack@monero.townEnglish
      47·
      1 year ago

      But it is really important. If you don’t care about free software, what’s stopping you from going back to reddit?

        • jack@monero.townEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          Having reason to stay on this platform is completely dependent on wanting the advantages of FOSS. Of course people like to talk about FOSS here.

          If there is another point in this thread I don’t see it

          • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            Yeah but if that’s pretty much ALL that people talk about, then it just exists to perpetuate itself essentially, and what’s the point of that? There needs to be diversity, or the platform will never grow substantially.

            • jack@monero.townEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yes, diversity is good. Talking about FOSS is also good.

              I don’t think the conversations about FOSS take room away from other topics, they can coexist. So let’s aim for bringing in more diverse topics instead of turning down FOSS topics

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I do care about free software. If the fediverse never grows beyond discussion about tech, free software and shitposts I will still use it. But if Lemmy/Mastodon only ever got traction on posts about particle physics, I’d ignore it because I don’t really understand or care about that.

        I also want this and other fediverse platforms to grow. And I think that even non-tech people care about FOSS concepts even if they can’t articulate it. People want to feel like their privacy is respected and they want to feel like their favorite platforms are democratic in control. So I think the fediverse will continue to grow and grow. It’ll take a while for us to grow out of the niche tech phase though.