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rglullis@communick.news 1 day agoNo-one thinks Lemmy/Piefed or theFediverse more broadly has the logistics, funding or capacity to supplant them.
I’ve answered this on a sibling thread. I think that the problem is ideological than of resources. Most people here will proudly claim they prefer to have a “small” Fediverse over an “universal” one. Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Mastodon had three big waves of people that wanted to leave Twitter but were met with hostility by a loud minority. There are people here who still think that the Reddit mirrors were bad because “if I wanted to see reddit stuff, I’d go to Reddit” and completely miss the point that the mirrors are a tool to get people out of there.
Plus, we shouldn’t need to “supplant” them. It would be enough to simply “disrupt” the model. Reddit still is in an incredibly fragile position. Twitter is a zombie network. Social “media” is in a overall declline. Instead of emulating these dying platforms, we should be skating to where the puck is heading and use the open protocols to build the Next Big Thing.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
No, I want the Fediverse to get bigger. I don’t necessarily think its desirable to become anywhere near the size of Reddit though.
Nor do I think its even possible. I don’t know anyone here who has arrived who has been met with “hostility” just for arriving so I have no idea what you’re talking about.
rglullis@communick.news 1 day ago
You are kind of arguing my case here: I think that the “Fediverse” should be lilke “The WWW”. Universal. The majority of people might use mobile apps for day-to-day things, but we can pretty much bet that the absolute majority of the billions of the connected people use web browsers.
So, when you say “I don’t think it is desirable for the Fediverse to be anywhere near the size of Reddit”, and knowing that Reddit is one of the smallest social networks out there (less than 100M MAU, mostly US-focused), to me it does sound like you are on the “Small Fediverse” camp.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah, Reddit is oversized itself. I think there’s way more advancements and functions that should take priority over outreach specifically anyway. It needs a lot more tools if it was to become a broadly much busier service.