Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise.
cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Truth is, fediverse’s more fragile than people wanna Admit, that’s my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there’s no for profit model that’s running these servers. That’s bad because running social media is expensive.
Second fediverse’s still utility first, user experience second priority. there’s no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.
Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.
Also it’s just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that’s not as fully baked as corporate owned social media
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 23 hours ago
Everything you said was spot on, and all of it is by design. The engineers and operators of the fediverse intentionally built their systems to be community-funded, algorithm-free, oriented around the tech-savvy, and otherwise deliberately eschewing the design principles behind corpo social media. None of that was an accident, it was the whole point.
So for people asking "when is the fediverse gonna create a competitor to tik tok" the answer is "never" because it was never its intent to do that. The friction is a feature, not a bug.
cinoreus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah, without a recommendation engine, or a for profit model, fediverse is destined to stay an enthusiast space.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 20 hours ago
Which to be honest? Is totally fine with me. Re-diversifying the Internet is a good thing.
cinoreus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.