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The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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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.
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