cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/268746

For poor people (ex lumenproletariat, but incl anyone struggling, which incls some middleclass ‘big spenders’) hard to give a hoot about privacy when like the bottom 2 rungs of maslow’s hierarchy of needs are lacking.

I personally bumped into digital privacy/the fediverse somewhat randomly when covid lockdowns were happening. Always sorta had an innate concept of privacy compared to some people though.

  • Danileonis
    18·
    3 years ago

    Normal people just care on what their friends are using. The real question is: Why big characters in the libre software culture are not promoting/using it?

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
      4·
      3 years ago

      The real question is: Why big characters in the libre software culture are not promoting/use it?

      Who are you talking about?

      • deathbird@mander.xyz
        4·
        3 years ago

        Guessing he means folks like Moxie Marlinespike, Popey, Torvalds, Cory Doctrow (though I think he’s on Mastodon actually), etc.

  • Sioctan
    9·
    3 years ago

    Also social networking is a minor additive, not that important. Add to this, if none of your friends are on it, why do it in the first place?

  • sproid
    2·
    3 years ago

    People like habits and don’t like to get out of their comfort zone. Or the “Why fix it if its not broken” mentality.

    • sascuachOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Afaik some of the fediverse aspires to replace big tech