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As a veteran of Usenet/Alternet, the Fediverse feels nostalgically like home in a way many social media platforms failed to capture since then, at least for me. I think it has legs this time, with specialized "galaxies" catering to different media habits and preferences. You have imagos of other platforms for long- and short-form discussion, video, images and mixed-media chat here. The Fedipact even seems to be a good start towards limiting the influence of Big Tech and their playbook to Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Well... this time™.
I also worry about it collapsing, but more from under its own weight of balkanization: ever more fragmented splinters of the same communities all isolated from one another through defederation and strife. Maybe that's an unavoidable end game for diversity in an ecosystem, or maybe it will scale this time without corporate interest driving engagement through controversy and rage?
We'll see. Nothing is forever, and something different usually comes along when you need it.
Anyway, I'm here for the same reasons as you and many others. It'll be a good thing we build here, if we can keep it.
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