Catodon is a new Sharkey/Misskey fork (Edit: sadly with AI code contributions).

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Car shops are clearly labeled and have giant windows that have their products on display, and people driving in and out of their parking lot and running ads on TV night and day explaining what their products do.

So, no, it’s not at all like that

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    And Fediverse instances are similar. But that only works when you know what a car actually is.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    If you’re referring to Lemmy/PieFed, Mastodon, and the like, well, people know about those because there was a huge amount of publicity about those services within the tech community that explained exactly what they were, and the benefits, especially in places like Reddit and twitter.

    It was more like convincing people who drove cars and rode motorcycles to go electric.

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