I've been wanting a return to a distributed social web for over a decade now. Now that it looks truly viable, why would I want to go back?
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Yup.
iPhones and centralized, corporate social media are just what the internet is to a lot of people. People who were either too young to have used the pre-2008 Internet, or people who saw computers and the Internet as "too nerdy" or "too complicated" all ended up on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Those who didn't think juggling multiple groups was too hard also maybe ended up on Reddit. Once Reddit had an official, first party app, at least.
These people make up the bulk of social media users, and these people likely won't be leaving those spaces.
It's all they've ever really known of the Internet. And it's all they've ever wanted from it.
Could it? Of course, absolutely.
Will it? Well, that's a much more complicated question, with a much more pessimistic answer.
Whoever owns Lenny.nl needs to repurpose it immediately.
Yeah, there's a lot of small or single-user instances. And that count is across all of the Fediverse, so Mastodon, Misskey, Calckey, Foundkey, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, PixelFed, PeerTube, FunkWhale, BookWyrm, etc., etc. But it's a big place.
I said elsewhere, the internet used to be expansive and sparse. Well, we're starting to reclaim that here.
Presumably he just doesn't know anything about Lemmy, and has misunderstood what people are asking of him. Let's see where things sit in a couple of months.
And Friendica has full groups support, AFAIK, so it functions like an inverse kbin, focusing the microblogging but giving full group access.
Yeah, it's really the opposite of that. One account let's you access all oftthe content (or most of it, not everything is totally interoperable, and admins do block other sites sometimes), but now there's 10,000 separate, totally independent websites.
But it's absolutely what basically everyone thinks at first, because most people hear about it from people that don't really explain things very well.
We should encourage more, frankly. Misskey has exploded in forks, and it's meant good things.
So long as they're interoperable, the diversity in experiences is good for all of us.
I love that you can follow PeerTube channels from Lemmy. This user influx on Lemmy could mean big things for PeerTube.
For one, it makes the post searchable on Mastodon