“the fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet” - so put time and attention into making it ready instead of trying to build something completely new. If enough businesses and public figures put their resources into getting the fediverse beefed up (or dumbed down/simplified) to where the public needs it to be to meet their needs, it could happen much sooner. And it’d be better in the long run than whatever replacement will just follow the exact same villain character arc as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter - sell more shit to you and let the app fucking break.
This attitude of waiting for someone (i.e those seeking corporate payouts) to build a perfect thing for us is the attitude which leaves us in the position of passive consumers/products being milked by enshittifying data harvesters.
I know it’s a cliche but we do need to become the change we want to see and make it better ourselves.
These people want another Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. They want a fully centralized platform with outreach. They need places to advertise and stuff. Hell, I believe that’s why these papers have been so mute on the Fediverse. It makes it way harder to advertise, get clicks and stuff. Threads is the one I can see them starting to push really hard since it has all the centralization and trackers. Not even Bluesky has that.
Yeah. I have spent a lot of thoughts where it will go now. Building it up from scratch means mayhem. Besides that getting people on those networks. Better to improve what’s already there like you said.
“the fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet” - so put time and attention into making it ready instead of trying to build something completely new. If enough businesses and public figures put their resources into getting the fediverse beefed up (or dumbed down/simplified) to where the public needs it to be to meet their needs, it could happen much sooner. And it’d be better in the long run than whatever replacement will just follow the exact same villain character arc as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter - sell more shit to you and let the app fucking break.
Well said.
This attitude of waiting for someone (i.e those seeking corporate payouts) to build a perfect thing for us is the attitude which leaves us in the position of passive consumers/products being milked by enshittifying data harvesters.
I know it’s a cliche but we do need to become the change we want to see and make it better ourselves.
These people want another Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. They want a fully centralized platform with outreach. They need places to advertise and stuff. Hell, I believe that’s why these papers have been so mute on the Fediverse. It makes it way harder to advertise, get clicks and stuff. Threads is the one I can see them starting to push really hard since it has all the centralization and trackers. Not even Bluesky has that.
Yeah. I have spent a lot of thoughts where it will go now. Building it up from scratch means mayhem. Besides that getting people on those networks. Better to improve what’s already there like you said.