Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?
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We used to say the same thing about GNU/Linux on the desktop, and we were/are ridiculed constantly. The fact is that it is. While Android isn’t the same as Linux, it (and every other consumer platform besides MacOS, iOS and Windows) is based on Linux.
When Instagram Threads is released in a day-and-a-half, (and if it lives upto it’s potential and isn’t just a case of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish), ActivityPub and the Fediverse will be mainstream.
97% chance of being EEE. Suddenly everyone will be coming to the Fediverse but not because they're interested but to talk to people on Threads. Then they're going to deviate from the AP spec slowly and become the de facto standard and so on. Or they're going to pull a Google Chat.
Great post on the mastodon blog, clearing things up;
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
In a nutshell, Zuck may want to EEE, but ActivityPub already has enough of a user graph and is structured in such a way that it would not be possible.