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Massive centralization is helping Fediverse (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by valvin@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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A bit paradoxal but it looks that all central platform (twitter, reddit, facebook...) are helping the spread of Fediverse. Recently we saw the impact with Twitter on Mastodon, myself I've discovered Lemmy even if I wasn't a reddit user. And before that Facebook first spread friendica and diaspora. It looks next step will be around Youtube where Google try to lock more and more its user.

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[–] a_new_sad_me@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm new to the fediverse, exactly for those comments. I've tried Mastodon a few months ago, but let it go. Mostly since I wasn't able to figure myself out there. Like, there were hashtags (yey!) but there was no way for me to follow/store the ones I'm interested in (boo!). Eventually I let it go since it felt like a tiny twitter, so maybe I did something wrong there.

And also now with Lemmy, I feel a bit out of place out the moment. Again, tags that I can see in the app I'm using (Jarboe) but Ic annot find them in the web interface.

Maybe I just need to explore more.