I mean, no one really uses Windows on purpose, right?'nIt's forced on you by your employer or your school.

[terryhancock@realsocial.life]

I mean, no one really uses Windows on purpose, right?

It's forced on you by your employer or your school. Or it's just what came on your computer and you don't know how to re-install or can't be bothered.

I mean, how many Windows users have actually INSTALLED their Windows O/S..?

Same reasons people use Android. Or iOS. Or Apple anything.

[terryhancock@realsocial.life]

I think that Linux (and to a lesser degree other free/self-installed O/S like BSD Unix, etc) has pretty much saturated the "market" for everyone who's actually willing to *think* about what O/S they are using on their computer.

The rest are people who just don't want to think about computers.

Something similar is happening with respect to the Fediverse, I think. If you don't *choose* to be here, then the social media you use will be one of the corporate platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

It's a hell of a filter, that kind of intentional choice. I think we underestimate it.

[humanservitor@mastodon.social]

@TerryHancock

I occasionally miss wider chaos of larger platforms but I suspect most people here would say that filter is working as intended.

We could probably do a better job of communicating that being proactive with hashtags and examining and following interesting people you see boosted is the fastest way to fill that early silence that new refugees run into.

[terryhancock@realsocial.life]

@HumanServitor

@evan talks about the "Big Fedi" and "Small Fedi" agendas/factions to describe this, I think.

I"m mostly on the "Big Fedi" side, myself. But I can understand the benefits of the Small Fedi. Google+ was like that, too: you were on with a bunch of computer experts, and if you were a computer person, those are largely "your people", so it's kind of nice.

But it's still a bubble. I try to live in the "real world". Sadly, a big chunk of my "real world", particularly in my geographic area, is it's fully of MAGA people. Who keep saying absolutely batshit things that they think are true, because the regime says so. 🤦

It's hard on the sanity.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@TerryHancock @HumanServitor Apropos of nothing, "Human Servitor" is a dope handle. 👍🏼