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@phnt i think they really just mean "we want egirls on here with a million followers" and i guess, yeah ok, but why? as bao said, the fediverse successfully kept normie npcs away by having two @s instead of one.

i think that's one of the fundmental split personality issues in the fediverse. people say they don't want normies on here, but they also say that normies are retarded for not coming here because it's clearly objectively better. it's either / or. is this a secret club or is this a 200 million user network?

@lain My opinion for years has been that trying to assimilate normies here en masse was always a bad idea since the cultures and ideas how things should work are inherently incompatible. I see Mastodon being this popular is being a net-negative. Not from their tendency to do weird protocol things, but culturally. Mastodon network™ effectively became second twitter. And Bluesky became second Mastodon. Both somehow worse. And this place never wanted to be a cultural copy of Twitter, at least from my view.

Instead of Fedi being more "commercial" in terms of finding users, like it is now, it should be more "friends of friends inviting each other". Organic instead of artificial. One could say that is gatekeeping in order to prevent the "you have to include me in your community -> *kills said community by subversion with the likeminded* -> new community appears -> repeat" pipeline.

Now if "creator content" means bringing more creatives here, and building something like federated Newgrounds or Deviant Art, then I'm all for that. Fedi lacks creatives except in the Japanese parts. They either went away years ago, or needed to go somewhere for better attention.