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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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[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The one benefit you would have is the up-to-the-minute news on important world events. A smaller userbase may mean that you don't have someone in every corner of the world who is willing to provide updates like that.

However, we have survived before without minute-by-minute updates on world events, so surely we can do so again.

[–] Megaman_EXE 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thats the one thing that has made the jump over to lemmy slightly difficult for me. The niche subreddits for retro gaming, various hobbies etc don't seem to be a thing here? Unless I'm just not understanding how to search for them which could be the case.

I miss the 3ds, gameboy, wiiu, splatoon, gunpla, plantedtank and bonsai subreddits. Oh an animal crossing. Those subs were really chill.

[–] rambaroo 1 points 2 years ago

They often exist but there usually isn't much content in niche communities. There just aren't enough users yet.