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But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.

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[–] admin@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago (19 children)

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot.

I, really, do not believe in the strength of this statement. There has been a huge injection of people into the Fediverse and this will continue. This wave has brought in an enormous amount of highly qualified programmers, sysadmins and the like. And these people are contributing to Lemmy and a bunch of mobile apps for the Fediverse.

I am excited to participate and watch as the Fediverse explodes.

[–] batcheck@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don’t know why people look for feature parity between Lemmy/kbin and Reddit. With a bigger audience, its bound to happen that Lemmy/kbin will catch on features. People waited years and years for reddit to become what it “was”. The fediverse isn’t a stop gap. It’s the next potential platform once foss devs see the potential and have an audience to satisfy.

These articles always feel like the push us towards looking for a commercial option when we already have the right option under our nose. Just give it a few dev cycles.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or to put it in other words: what features are lacking?

Do people seriously miss 'awards' and other not very interesting functions.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Moderation tools and bug stability are the things I want to see

[–] admin@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Those are being worked on right now.

[–] tangentism@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's going to be the same when people bailed Digg.

They all complained about the interface and lack of features but then spent all their time pasting ascii images comments and starting pun threads.

I would rather there be a slow decline in Twitter & Reddit than a mass exodus. An immediate consequence is the loss of signal to noise ratio and that would be too much to take for a second time!

[Apologies for the double post - liftoff indicated that it had failed to post both times]

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