Comment on What's Mastodon precious?
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Heres the thing with federation
It will always be more complicated, and lead to smaller segregated communities. This mitigstes the network effect social media services rely on
Comment on What's Mastodon precious?
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Heres the thing with federation
It will always be more complicated, and lead to smaller segregated communities. This mitigstes the network effect social media services rely on
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The consumer lockin then monetization lockdown cycle always sheds users. I think eventually most federated systems will gain users, albeit slowly.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This only works if a new centralized network doesnt take its place, Blueskys existence kinda proves thats not always the case