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@dansup sorry I forgot the [over there] and added it now, it was always like it is now, very few people decide to choose the free (as in open source and not for profit) alternative. I think it is great what is happening since 2010 with the Fediverse emerging and the fast growth with Mastodon coming to the game, but for profit alternatives were always the ones growing faster. This does not mean that we do not need FLOSS alternatives, they are more important than ever (a sentence I would always have used for many years in this and other contexts).
Ivan Clavijos

@utzer @dansup apologies for chiming in, but I think it's quite relevant.

This very same morning I read a conversation between a few friends of mine in a Whatsapp group about the X and the current situation and, setting aside that "nobody" cares about free and open alternatives, one of my friends referred to Mastodon as "having Google+ vibes" 😢

@iclavijos @dansup some of the first waves that came to the Fediverse were those that came from G+.

Many came to Diaspora and Frienidca at that time.

@utzer @dansup yeah, I know, but he said that in the sense that is something really niche that will eventually go away because nobody really cares.

I was a G+ user and will always say it was the best (from a technical and functional point of view) social network back then, so comments like that one from my friend really hurt me. And given what I've seen, not sure if continuously preaching about Fediverse to this people is a good thing at all