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Erotic Mythology (hire me) 💘

I'm a bit sad. I've tried to bring people over to with what are good arguments to ME: content creators will eventually be shadowbanned or booted off a platform as soon as there is advertisers or payment processors demanding it. For marginalised people, Mastodon has powerful tools to stay safe.
But most people I talk to do acknowledge that and then go on to stay on or sign up for .
But I understand the discoverability issues, it's Mastodon's greatest weakness IMO.

@AimeeMaroux The issue is that #federatedNetworks appear "hard" and are inscrutable to people used to clicking OK on a #EULA without reading it. People who don't understand that they are saying "please take my #privacy and my #rights." People who think that #appStores are great rather than voracious organizations with predatory commission structures.

Average users don't want to think why things are #free and easy. They will also be the ones to complain when a for profit corporation changes their rules in a way that affects them, the user who believes the internet is somehow "free".

The #fediverse is fantastic because no one organization can take it down, and you can change servers if you don't like your current server's new rules. But explaining that to #normies will get you a blank gaze of incomprehension.

@AimeeMaroux Yeah, honestly I want to scream every time people say they won't go to the Fediverse no matter what and than sign up for Bluesky. I'm rarely saying anything (it's mostly in settings where not everyone knows that I'm a nonbinary creator of queer erotic stories, so I can't argue using that) but I scream internally and vent to friends.