ok yeah, that's cognitive dissonance. you are hitting a brick wall with some people and if you push on it harder, they will almost always dig in deeper.

some fediverse people are open to crypto though too and those are the people that we can talk to and show them around in this huge web3 space (like Hive).

for example, look at all of these fediverse people who have connected their instance to this Hive-based instance:
https://beetoons.tv/about/follows