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Lack of celebrity/well known content-creator is the only con of the Fediverse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know this is a double-edge sword and I can see why some would disagree on this but I mean it's a 'unpopular opinion' so I going to say it anyway

For me, I found discussing about one on the Fediverse is lot like talking to the wall dispite having hashtags. I felt like I can't talk about my comfort-artist as much. Reasons why people still use Twitter dispite Elon Musk made it identical to Gab & Trust Soical is there's content creator and celebrity there which is easy to get updates from there.

In theory, I should be alright with Threads but not as excited as it has some moderating issue such as LibsOfTikTok known for spreading Transphobia and pushing the narrative that all trans people are groomers. If this wasn't made by big company like Facebook, Admins of various instances would defederated straight away until they take moderation seriously.

Better alternative would be making an instance which is primarily for music artist or well-known content creator so anyone who isn't fond of that culture can simply mute/block the instance and move on.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I kinda agree with this, but only to a certain extent and mostly for Mastodon, and not Lemmy. With how difficult it can be to find people to follow on Mastodon, I think my experience has definitely been worsened by not really having at least a few of my favourite twitter posters on there, leaving me basically to fumble around in the dark slowly making my way towards an acceptable feed in spite of the platform. If I didn't believe in the potential of the platform and the ideas behind it, I don't think I would ever put that much time using something I don't really like trying to make it work for me.

Lemmy is a different story though, I really don't care who posts what as long as there are posts. Just like on Reddit, I can probably only recognise a very small number of usernames because it just doesn't matter so much in this format.