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The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] zefiax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's hard for non techie users to even understand what the word instance means. It's not a concept you encounter in everyday life.

And then without a broad algorithm that curate your feed, most users get confused on how to manage their communities across the fediverse.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 1 year ago

Because it’s hard for non techie users to even understand what the word instance means. It’s not a concept you encounter in everyday life.

I think you encounter the concept pretty often in your life: every time you go to Walmart (or every other chain shop) you basically are ecountering an instance of the company, for example

People are just not thinking about it