I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
I think it will take time to smooth few rough edges but already now it’s usable.
However I have big concerns on how this structure can scale, it already suffers with few thousands users. Plus security, privacy and sustainability of the fediverse is still a big question mark to me.
But it’s exciting and I hope it will be the future of socials.
The structure can absolutely scale, look at matrix and mastodon for examples, they’re in the millions of users!
Well see here: https://lemmy.world/post/75556
With 12k users the server had to be upgraded, imagine if it was 1 million. Somebody has to pay those bills and it’s yet to see how it will work with donations. So I think that this is the main challenge, not impossible at all to tackle (see Lichess or Wikipedia who live out of donations) but it’s definitely interesting to see how it will work.
Why would one million people use that random instance?
Especially when account exporting is done, people will just leave if the instance is slow.
because it is one of the most promoted, for example. Either that one or lemmy.ml. Currently most people don’t even know what an instance is and just look for a main Lemmy page where to register.
Sure, they might migrate, still the problem could easily happen again.
Meh, it wasn’t really a problem on mastodon, and they’re up to 4.5m and isn’t a problem at all on matrix, at around 40m, so, i’m not worried about it.
Scalability is going to be the key. If millions of people join up how can existing servers handle it. It’s going to cost money to run these things and where will that come from?