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>>925878 (OP)
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Nope. The only way to get normies onto "FLOSS" social platforms us to repudiate the very things that make non-normies interested in them in the first place.
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What do I mean? Take diaspora for example. Neat concept. Anyone can host a pod. COncerned about privacy? Host your own! FAIL! The normie is confused and angered by these terms. Pod? As in pod people? Host? Like in the Bible? He'll stick with Facebook, tyvm! Oh you don't have to "host" your own, whatever that means? Oh, there are plenty of different diaspora "pods" out there that I can sign up for? FAIL! The normie is terrified and confused by choice. How does he choose!? He doesn't want to get a bad one that will steal his bank info!!!
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Normies want one website (or phone app) that "everybody" knows and that everybody else is using. In order to position a "FLOSS" social platform as the successor to, say, Facebook, or Twitter, you're going to have to get the normies on board, and that means one website (or app) where "everybody" is. That means millions of dollars in hosting costs. That meansyou either sell advertising like it's going out of style, or you get venture capital. That means you may be using open source software, but you've just become what you hated. Try competing with Facebook or venture-backed startups without datamining the fuck out of your users (or useds, as Stallman says). Memes aren't going to push normies onto diaspora et al., and no matter how horrifying the Zucc is, normies are going to kee zuccing his flensed pecker if it means they get to be on Facebook where "everybody" is.
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To get normies off proprietary social media platforms in large numbers, you're going to either have to:
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1. Destroy proprietary social media, OR
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2. Kill billions of normies.
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Either is fine by me.
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