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While that is a reasonable motivation, I'd be more worried about potential fracturing of the marketshare, preventing the critical mass to be reached for smaller ones, while keeping the bigger ones from reaching full potential.
The flame dying out for kbin comes to mind. Mastodon probably saw this and decided they need to up their game.
If we're talking about feature, wouldn't it be better to improve on the existing?
I'm definitely not an expert on this, but I find it concerning the massive closed players keep getting all the pies while preying on the players on the verse, waiting to see some weakness to prey on.
I find it hard to imagine that'll be too much of an issue considering I'm seeing piefed and Mastodon comments in my Lemmy app right now. I don't care if someone is on a different site than I am as long as the content we make for each other gets seen by each other
That wasn't because of adoption, that was because the main dev ran into health issues. Or at least I was under the impression of that.
Assuming what you said is true, this would highlight the fact that kbin was pretty much entirely ran by a single person. Otherwise, someone else would readily take over.
I think there are a lot of projects that have many contributors but only one person that has admin access to the repo, website, etc. I wouldn't necessarily say it meant there was a single person working on it.
Let's not pretend that these projects are exempt from the real life obstacles. People have real life out there. They get sick, have family issues, change ideologies, you name it. Sometimes the sole maintainer goes missing out of the blue.
Yet some of these projects persevere despite challenges. Solus is a good example.
Mbin exists as a continuation of kbin. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
I (personally ofc) think that goes against the spirit of the fediverse. See lemmy.world for example; anyone can argue that lemmy.world is good for the fediverse since it's an easy choice for beginners to make, but in the long term it will harm everyone in general, since it just becomes centralized.
I think it makes sense that lemmy and mastodon are the most popular but i don't think it would hurt to have alternatives. I know that it's different when it's about an instance instead of a software (since the developers don't have much say in running the instances in general) but it could still harm smaller projects.
I'm not saying lemmy shouldn't be improved, but i was highlighting that it can be frustrating to wait for the lemmy devs to implement features that other software have implemented long time ago, and it may discourage other small devs from implementing it since "the most popular software doesn't implement it, so no one would see/use this feature anyway".
Keeping the verse alive one way or another goes with the spirit of fediverse. The case with .world does highlight the pitfalls of having an instance so big, but it highlight its success. The pitfalls can also be mitigated by having many other instances, big and small (e.g. sh.itjust.works, blahaj, db0, sopuli, lemm.ee, all the feddit instances) that although they have different names, they share the same banner of Lemmy. This is highly successful with Mastodon.
Speaking of the same banner, wouldn't it be great to have many different link aggregators like lemmy, mbin, piefed, and maybe others to share the same class identity or so instead of what they currently are? This way, they all won't be treated like competing standards despite being on their own code base and feature set. Maybe with this, forks of the original Lemmy code can be created to address the stuborness of the devs.
Yes, I am aware ActivityPub is supposed to achieve just this, but it also does a lot of things that are not relevant and even confusing to the specific use case (e.g. link aggregator). Also, newcomers would just get frustrated with all this tech stuff and ran off to the warm embrace of big tech.
I agree. Though my main concern was that Lemmy would gain too much control over the threads part of the fediverse it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Its mainly a future concern for me.
There's nothing wrong with Lemmy or mastodon, but it's nice JIC to have good alternatives like mbin n piefed.
I've been thinking of making a project that would explain the entire fediverse (hopefully easily) and build a chooser, where it'd help by choosing a software and an instance. That is a good way to cull back a little on too much centralization IMO.
Don't get me wrong though, Lemmy or mastodon, I'm still happy that we're getting more mainstream :D ultimately my points are just small criticisms.