What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?
If the mods don’t fuck it up like removing the instance, banning people for some nonsense and people donate so that they can keep their servers up and running
After seeing several places get mainstream, the last of which being Reddit: I wouldn’t want it to. That’s when everything starts to suck. Stay niche. Stay cool.
There will always be niche instances. Federation just solves the content problem of niche communities. Ideally you find a instance with a niche community you like and you interact with them first but if you run out of things to look at you can just move on to the infinite content of the fediverse.
Yeah but this is not Reddit. It is not controlled by a company. It’s a decentralized platform, so I don’t think it would be a problem even if it did become mainstream.
It depends what you mean by “mainstream”. If by that you imply that the Fediverse will become a true public forum, and a place to exchange ideas and form opinions, then yes, I would like for it to be a counterweight to legacy media and corporate content silos. However, if the fediverse becomes yet another astroturfed propaganda outlet, then no, I do not want it to become mainstream. Fortunately, the loose Fediverse network makes it hard to take over and control, provided that the ActivityPub protocol remains untainted by actions of bad actors.
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We really need the lemmy version of a multireddit - some way to group up your subscribed communities into categories. This way you can lasso together all the communities that cover the same topic but were created on different instances. That’s at the basic level.
At the advanced level, I hope someone can come up with an algorithm to merge duplicate posts/news sources/etc together so that it looks like one centralized post, even though it is decentralized on the backend.
When you can convince your friends to use Signal, you can convince them to use Mastodon and Lemmy… So, I vote ‘No’ ☹️
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Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there’s not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I’m not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
I’m hoping it won’t. I’ve had discussions with my friends from the earlier days of the Internet. The Internet was a much nicer place when you didn’t have everyone and their grandma on it. You actually had to be tech literate to use it. This resulted in higher quality interactions and content. You still had undesirable groups and places, but they were sectioned off to their own corner. Now, social media and its algorithms give everyone a soapbox. I’d rather they stay off my fediverse lawn.
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Ultimately I see corporations owning all the most popular servers, and attempting to federate with everyone else.
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It can but given how media is ignoring it I dont see that happening in near future. Us user will have to shape the future of the fediverse and I think that is the best thing.
Sure… It’s the way of the internet. There’s always the next hot thing. Yahoo was it for a minute… Then Digg… Then Reddit…Now… time for something else.
No, and they never have to.
