A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.
Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.
Is that a good thing necessarily?
A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.
Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.