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.
Also I feel like we don’t immediately need everyone from Reddit here. It’s cool to get all the tech-sawwy people and maybe let them do their thing before Lemmy or other alternative platforms take off. I for one have been waiting for an idea for a hobby project to work on besides my freelance projects and already have a few things in the back of my head that I want to try after my summer holiday.
Fediverse is inspiring and exciting platform and I feel like it has the critical mass now to actually take off and succeed.