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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] sarchar@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Paid fear mongering. You go to lemmy.world (or any other instance) and sign up. Done. It's not difficult at all. It's rich assholes trying to keep you on reddit.

[–] totallynotsocsa 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is super weird the level of vitriol you see on Reddit over fediverse stuff. Like it's one thing to think it's not for you, but it's really weird to spam 20 posts about how much it sucks in a day.

[–] HQC 1 points 2 years ago

It makes a lot more sense when you consider those comments were likely bought by someone at Reddit.

[–] Senex@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I literally signed up for Lemmy a half hour ago. Picked Reddthat.com, searched for some topics I was interested in, subscribed, this is my first post. If a 50+ old man can do it, well...it ain't that difficult!

[–] Spurton@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. Same path to sign up and same age. Wait did I post as you last night when I was high 🤔

[–] deephurting 2 points 2 years ago

Ditto ibid likewise. Well not the part about being high. ;) Signed up the moment rumblings about reddit being on the way out really began to gain in volume. Had heard about how daunting this place was to suss - are you kidding me? That's all either propaganda, or whining from people who have been spoon fed everything imaginable for their entire lives.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Seriously, the anti-fediverse stuff is all coming from paid, commercial outlets. Even if they're not being paid by Reddit, Twitter, or Meta, they're all scared of non-commercial options not run by greedy capitalists gaining control of the Internet again. As the corporate social media dies the corporate news media may suffer the same fate. Money protecting money is what this seems like to me.