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So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@lemm.ee to c/technology

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But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.

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[–] noogie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fediverse is ready, if you build it they will come!

I think there needs to be a sensible way to crowdfund the server costs, but I can’t see any other reason why it shouldn’t succeed

[–] crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Because signing up is still a chore since you need to choose the right instance and hope they don't defederate from an instance you like content from. Instance? Defederate? Then you worry about whether an instance can handle more traffic from other instances before it gets too expensive to run. And what about when so many more instances come online? It seems like the amount of syncing is multiplicative, so we're not sure how bad it will get when you have a bunch more instances, because it's a problem Lemmy and Kbin haven't had yet.

There's a lot that's not ready, from signups bugs to quality of life problems (how many people are subscribed to a community/magazine? How do you find out? You go to each instance because each instance only tells you how many people from that instance are subscribed, not total). I want to believe this is going to take off, but it needs to get better before the average Joe will be able to easily use this.