One minute this site was the biggest thing since sliced bread, the next we’ve all forgotten it.
Can someone pls explain the lack of traction?
One minute this site was the biggest thing since sliced bread, the next we’ve all forgotten it.
Can someone pls explain the lack of traction?
Fediverse stuff is always gonna be somewhat niche. Consider that a lot of people still don’t fully understand it. Federation is like email in a lot of ways, with multiple domains that can cross communicate, but the way people understood email was by likening it to the postal service and not even considering domains and such. So even explaining ActivityPub by means of email is a bit of a heavy lift.
And getting people to host their own instances? That’s asking a lot out of anyone. I had to learn a lot to spin up my kbin instance here, and I’d like to think myself fairly adept at technology.
Add onto this that Lemmy is pretty stable but occasionally still has its issues, and kbin is still in a fairly early state, so it’s not as clean an experience as existing centralized solutions.
However, the fact that we have a pretty steady population out here is super encouraging. People didn’t migrate during the reddit evacuation and then immediately dip out - there’s reasons to stay. Hopefully we can continue to slowly socialize the fediverse to folks and get more people onboard. I know everyone associates Web3 with the blockchain and monkey jpgs, but in my mind this is the proper Web3 - decentralizing the internet and socializing it back into the hands of the people.
Yeah it’s very much an uphill battle that’s being fought here but it’s nice to see the feddit community still alive and kicking. I’m sure reddit will continue to do dumb stuff that pushes out more users.
Eventually when they get real serious about their IPO it will get especially bad and if the company ever goes public you’ll see what happens with just about every other publicly traded platform: a complete race to the bottom to appease shareholders. That will shake a lot of people.