I agree. That’s why I’ve largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.

I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.

But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.

It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.

But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.

I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.