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So where are we all supposed to go now?
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I didn't know what the Fediverse was a week ago, and now I'm active on Lemmy and Mastodon. I think people are dramatically overstating how difficult it is to sign up. It's not hard, it's just new.
And besides, I don't think the fediverse needs to take over at all. It just needs to have active, viable, engaging communities. As Iong as enough people end up here to sustain that, it doesn't really matter if they overtake the places we're coming from.
I agree with you that it isn't that difficult. I signed up on mastodon.social months ago. It was a little confusing about picking an instance so I just arbitrarily picked one. The same was true for lemmy. Now I'm on lemme.ee and behaw.org.
In the case of Matodon, I recently discovered the Explore option. There's more than enough posts to keep me reading for hours. And most of them are interesting. Imagine reading an unfiltered Twitter feed. I don't need Mastodon to get any bigger for my needs. It may even be better if it doesn't get a huge membership. The same holds true for lemmy and kbin, bigger and better yes, but they don't have to be a Reddit replacement.