An eventful week in the fediverse, filled with discourse and drama about Meta’s new microblogging platform. A summary of events and a separation of the different topics that were talked about. Beyond that, WeDistribute, a blog with a long history and legacy talking about decentralized social networks is back!
A very interesting article. There are some valid arguments to let Meta join the fediverse, even if I disagree with them doing so.
Getting people to leave Facebook for another platform when all their family and friends are on there is an extremely difficult task. God knows I’ve tried. With Twitter it was easier since Elon Musk has been continuously fucking up the service and being an openly ignorant and intolerant asshat and playing god with everyone’s accounts. People quickly sought alternatives and soon found Mastodon.
Recently the same thing happened with Reddit, but it was much softer. Redditors aren’t so keen on letting go of their decade-old high-karma accounts and all the saved discussions and comments and the overall increasing popularity of the service in the media. You kind of feel like you’re part of something big, whereas with Lemmy or Kbin it still feels like a very young underground community without any attention.
And I hate to say it, but Diaspora, which is the alternative to Facebook, really hasn’t taken off at all, sadly. It needs to be brought back to the forefront along with Mastodon, Lemmy and KBin.
