I'd rather see him finish the mobile app.
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https://linto.ai/ - I think this one is cloud based though and you'd have to find a service provider.
https://doc.linto.ai/#/client/rpi_quickstart - actually it seems you could set it up yourself on a raspberry pi.
Pretty cool. I had installed Sabayon/Gentoo a few years back. It was polished but it took forever to build software/update. Best of luck to them.
Lack of influencers/celebrities on the fediverse is why it's adoption is low. Someone important would have to make a conscious choice to only use Mastodon/Lemmy/PixelFed, etc. instead of Reddit, Twitter, Instagram. There would be the other challenge that if someone did do that, someone might create a bot to repost their tweets, or set up an instagram account to repost their photos, etc. With the inertia that exists it will be a slow process. I think Lemmy and Mastodon have a good shot just by the communities they are building.
But then you have things like that Star Trek celebrity trying to use Mastodon and being bullied out of the software because of a militant trans community. That could also be problematic for adoption if there are social barriers being put up to entry.
Agree with @[email protected]
Note that the one that has taken off; Mastodon - has a user face that is as easy as Twitter. Also note that something like 500k out of 4 million users are using Mastodon.Social, the main developer's instance.
I think people will naturally migrate to the most easy to use/popular option in a decentralized fediverse.
OP is right that if the decentralized tool isn't easy to use it won't gain widespread adoption. For example, WordPress is open source software that many now host themselves, but majority of WordPress users don't host their own instance, they use independent firms or they relay on WordPress.com(mercial) to set up the instance. I see that being the same with the fediverse. Actually there is a few companies in Europe already providing fediverse hosting; like https://masto.host/
Sustainability-wise; I still believe the $1 per user per year price for social media is sustainable and could be used for all of these fediverse social apps (though peertube may be more expensive with bandwidth.) Imagine Mastodon.Social, with its 500,000 users, all paid $1 a year. Eugen would have a decent amount of cash to maintain the servers and hire developers. The barrier is the global poor not having that kind of money (could be subsidized by the rich), and payment processing barriers because of US control of the financial system. As crypto becomes more widely adopted that problem may diminish.
There's also the co-operative model; Social.coop is a mastodon instance for example where the members of the social.coop site vote for the board of directors (one member one vote). Lemmy.ML for example could operate as a co-op where each member pays an annual membership fee to vote for the board and optionally major referendum/bylaw decisions (like what development should focus on, setting prices, etc.)
It reminds me of how universities have become these bloated administration heavy institutions with a higher ratio of bureaucratic staff to professors than ever before.
There was an economist, I think William Lazonick, that said the natural aim of organizations was not profit, but actually growth. So it didn't matter if it was a non profit, a government, or a for profit company, management always seems to be focused on growing the organization. If there was only a way we could program it in for that not to happen ik some cases.
https://42.tut.by/712522 Google translate says there's already a movement to bring back the old app. Anyone got a link to the movement?
Mullvad is a good one
I'm just speculating but; Google's ecosystem could go the same route as Apple in that it could become relatively attached to Google products. There's a good chance I'll be wrong about this but I see an increased push to interoperability and tech standards neutrality because of US imperialism (RISCV instead of AMD, etc.) In the USA you could see Apple, Google, Tizen, some linux variant (like PinePhone/Lineage), and others pop up. This would be less efficient and well, stupid. But look what happened with Netflix, Disney, HBO, etc. - we had one streaming service that had all of the shows for $8 a month, now we have 5 or 6 platforms that all charge various amounts. If having a mobile platform and a mobile app store means increased profit we'll see competition in this space. Now that we're entering the next generation of mobile OS there will be companies that will try to take advantage. Amazon failed on their first mobile OS but after it licks its wounds why won't they try again and tie it somehow to Amazon Prime membership? Just speculation on my part - it's a really inefficient thing to have multiple mobile OS's that do essentially the same thing.
But, if it is the case that Google switches to Fuchsia, it's not GPL, and they make a push for adoption, guaranteed there will be people like you and I buying an alternate GPL-based OS to keep the free software movement alive. If anything I think that would accelerate adoption of alternatives; sort of how Facebook buying Whatsapp led to rapid adoption of Telegram.
Oh yes you are probably right. But then it's even less likely IMO. Tizen, HarmonyOS, and others are already starting development because of the fear of US political sanctions, I'd argue that ship (of a unified american-led global mobile OS) has already sailed for a generation if not permanently.
Ahh! I didn't know about the conspiracy stuff/Bill Gates stuff. Last I heard he was indirectly privatizing developing countries healthcare systems.
TIL the fediverse has been around for a decade.
IMO with apps like Lemmy, Mastodon, and Pixelfed becoming useable for the non-technical users in the past couple of years I think we're at the beginning of exponential growth of the Fediverse.