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do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media (lemmy.ml)
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At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Building a resilient, safe, longterm-viable communities is the metric to measure fedi by.

100% agree, especially on the resiliency part.

A community with 100 users but will never die is much better than one with a million users but might kick the bucket anytime.

The way the Fediverse works, and assuming that not everyone goes to the same instance, then it will be pretty much guaranteed to exist as long as there are users. And this is huge in terms of community building.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously there are also threats, but they are different threats than those that apply to centralized platforms. One of the threats, in fact, is centralization itself — if people flock to a few gigantic instances, that creates a central point of failure, potentially.

But there are currently ~20k independently run fedi instances. Some had been running for a decade or longer.

As I said, we're here for the long run.