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Out of curiosity, why do you guys think the Fediverse is still not taking off? (lemmy.ml)
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I've thought about it a bit and the Fediverse has been around for a while now. There are some really cool applications being made to replace the mainstream ones, but they just aren't taking off.

Why do you guys think that might be? Ease of use? Addiction to the mainstream platforms? Lack of marketing?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I think real, full federation is the only thing that would actually make the fediverse competitive with the centralized platforms, but most fediverse projects aren't big enough to support that or just don't have any interest in it.

Other than that, I think only exclusive communities will work, like it did with Mastodon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

I was thinking that. Like if all the reddit clones just became lemmy instances. Some will choose not to federate, but the ones that do will help each other gain critical mass. Then people can escape their filter bubbles onto different instances/cultures.

The other one is proper native support for languages like wikipedia has. So speakers of language X never have to interact with English language content if they don't want to. There is a huge body of users who IMO would flock to a reddit-like site that has that.