Thing is, it doesn't have to be ready. It doesn't have to have everyone here, just enough people to form a healthy community.

This is how it was in the olden days and it worked well.

If there is reddit with its gazillion users and the fediverse only has a few million that's enough for me.

Enough to have interesting discussions and learn new things.

And who the f**** really cares about celebrities like Nicki Minaj etc.

I'd rather talk to the most unremarkable person I can find than those manufactured personalities.

When life gives you lemons, make Lemmy nade

I think we may already be at the next oasis. It’s just the normal progression. People said similar things about AOL, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, Delphi, CompuServe, etc. We’ll find new places to hang out. And then we’ll move on when they inevitably collapse.

As far as the fediverse not being “ready”, I certainly feel like it’s ready for me. But of course we’re talking personally. I definitely agree it’s not ready for users looking for the easiest route to log in and have everything be ready and easy and setup for them.

I’m stoked right now, I feel like I’m in high school screwing around on the internet again!

"the fediverse isn't ready to take over yet" - so put time and attention into making it ready instead of trying to build something completely new. If enough businesses and public figures put their resources into getting the fediverse beefed up (or dumbed down/simplified) to where the public needs it to be to meet their needs, it could happen much sooner. And it'd be better in the long run than whatever replacement will just follow the exact same villain character arc as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter - sell more shit to you and let the app fucking break.

maybe, just maybe, develop some in-person relationships with the people in your immediate social circle/geographic area. it worked really well up until around 30 years ago.

"The fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet." and I think that it doesn't matter that much. You need to form a community, big or small, but a healthy one, and then make your way from there. Some platforms are, yes, still in early stages, but I think the communities are actually helping developers because they can give the developerse feedbacks about new features, bugs etc. etc.

So did lemmy win? Did kbin win? The crossposting makes me wonder which platform I should be moving over to, but both are in the Fediverse so I also wonder if we should all just refer to it as fedi or something...

Duolingo has been getting extra attention from me these days.

My progression: Alien Blue > Apollo > Lemmy (WefWef). Happy to be here now and seeing it grow quickly. Told everyone I know that used Apollo to come join. Feels good to be here!

So I keep saying that humans have evolved in small communities, and that's where we thrive. But I also loved the global Reddit community. This is just crazy how you can just reach anything and anyone with one login. I guess Twitter was similar, just... Shittier?

If Reddit collapses, then it renders Google search broken as well. Just filled with AI generated crap. Just tried to find something simple on Google and just garbage results until I added Reddit into the search. Will the same be true for Lemmy or Kbin?

This was a great article, very relatable.

This article seems to lament that there's not a ready-made option to jump onto as those that are available are in decline. Perhaps it will take time to build a new one, as those of us in the fediverse are endeavoring to do.