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  • Because people already know the chant and it’s dead easy to follow along and learn.

    It’s not the words themselves that are effective. It’s the number of people saying them together. Chanting and singing in unison has a very powerful effect on human psychology for both the chanters and people hearing it.

    Walk into almost a church to witness this effect, watch soldiers doing drills, listen to cheers at a sporting event. People are stronger together, we feel that at a fundamental level. Hearing people making the same sounds communicates unanimous intent. That can be inspiring or intimidating, it doesn’t matter much what words they say.
















  • athairmor@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldHappy #GlobalSwitchDay
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    21 days ago

    Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

    The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

    Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.