I love that idea so much. I wasn't a Twitter user, so Mastodon kinda felt a little off. But I definitely was a Reddit user, and I am so happy to participate in the Fediverse now. It's pure joy.

I wish at some point contributing to the fediverse will be as simple as plugging a Raspberry Pi and forget about it. "Here is some bandwidth, some storage and some compute power. Do whatever you need."

This is the future I want.

It doesn't need to provide value to everyone. That would be nice, but I don't mind it just being a smaller amount of enthusiasts. I've been having some really good discussions here lately. That's the value I see at least.

This is a great start. I think a first goal should not be to replace big tech, but the create thriving alternatives. You should not have to feel that you are missing out by not using facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit etc. And with Mastodon/Lemmy/kbin we are getting there even if it is very very early still.

My biggest fear is always bots and astroturfing. We need some tools or methods that will reliably stop this. And we need it to be implemented ASAP. I honestly wouldn’t mind paying $1 a month for this, or some kind of rolling human tests to continue posting and commenting. PLEASE

Fuckin' A!

Get grandma on here and you're on to something.

So...instead of Web 3.0, we're at Web 1.0 2.0. All right.