Think of it as people using different email clients. When you're using Gmail, that doesn't stop you from emailing people on Yahoo or Hotmail right? It's the same with lemmy. Here people signup on different servers and you can talk to them. Think of it like a twitter user liking an Instagram post without leaving twitter. They can follow any Instagram user and see their posts if they follow them but they don't have to log into Instagram. And that's what Meta is trying to do with threads.
I'm on jerboa, Android.
Porn is the reason, the internet is so popular. It's basically a driving force!
Depends. Usually standing.
I shall miss boost for reddit
nah zuckyfucky has always been about destroying competitors. It's not about data, it's about absolute dominance.
i think this is a good read on what they can do https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I tried to use mastodon but it never stuck for me. Mostly because of the lack of communities that I'm part of on twitter. Ever since musk's takeover, I've been using twitter less and less.
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I'm indifferent to their choices.
Branding is also another factor that comes into play here. Most regular users are used to having a more polished app. Simplicity is the driving force behind apps like tiktok and Instagram. They build on top of each other rather than reinventing the wheel. So it's just a transfer of skills and patterns. With the fediverse, regular users have relearn those patterns and skills, which most people just aren't going to do.
One way to solve this problem is to just abstract the idea of the fediverse. Rather than saying "join the fediverse, we're decentralised" we could say "we're a multiverse of internet communities".
I also dont think regular users care about whether a post is from another server or not. This can be abstracted as well by only showing the community not the server. What I'm trying to say is, even though the fediverse is a decentralised network, we need to treat is as a centralized one.