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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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[–] WorldlyCaregiver 10 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter so much exactly where we go, as long as it's a place that won't do the same thing and make us go somewhere else yet again. If I move (like I did from Reddit), it's enough of a pain that I'm going to make sure I won't have to move again. As best as I can, I'll use this chance to choose a social media that is as stable as possible.

I considered squabbles.io as one of my options when choosing a new site, and it is easier and better to use than Lemmy and Kbin right now. But it is still centralized, so there's no way to ensure it won't be like Reddit 15 years from now. That alone swung my decision in favor of the Fediverse, and once I decided on that Beehaw looked like the server with the best quality discussions. I'm happy to wait for a network to get more user-friendly; I won't put effort into a site that can enshittify and make me leave all my posts there again.