Gregory's Server@grishka @lightone @dansup while I agree with your point in spirit about "nobody wants to join a network to follow strangers", one curious thing is that this has largely been an ongoing foundational part in how the fediverse has bootstrapped a large part of its userbase.
You're correct in the sense that it might not be the thing that scales up the network to the next couple million users. But, it does serve the network pretty well in facilitating engagement and keeping people here.
TBH, what's really lacking is a good app / data standard to migrate people to the fediverse while retaining their contacts, and maybe their content as well.
You're correct in the sense that it might not be the thing that scales up the network to the next couple million users. But, it does serve the network pretty well in facilitating engagement and keeping people here.
TBH, what's really lacking is a good app / data standard to migrate people to the fediverse while retaining their contacts, and maybe their content as well.
deadsuperhero, importing GDPR export archives! I'll research that at some point.
I've read somewhere that Facebook helped people switch from MySpace by literally logging into their MySpace accounts and synchronizing stuff. As in, when they posted something on Facebook, it got automatically cross-posted to MySpace.