Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

  • holo_nexus@kbin.social
    10·
    2 years ago

    Jury is till out it’s way too early to tell. The fediverse seems very unrefined still (which I kind of enjoy tbh). If its truly going “save the internet”, a lot of refining needs to be done in order to attract at a mainstream scale.

    It’s been really refreshing so far though.

    • Ragnell@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      It is really strange, in that it WORKS like the old Wild West of Web 2.0 when it was all blogs and RSS feeds but it doesn’t FEEL like the Wild West. It’s definitely civilization here.

      • holo_nexus@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        WORKS like the old Wild West of Web 2.0

        Well said

        I’m hoping that now that we have seen a fair share of social media companies rise and fall and why they’ve fallen, many people will begin to find out what they are looking for in a social media network.

      • beeboopbeep@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        Haha yeah this is tame compared to when we went from static sites to dynamic communities. This seems so easy in comparison. Things are much easier now.

    • ash@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 years ago

      agreed. It’s got bugs, and scalability issues, but i’m liking to “quirkiness” of it. I’ve most most of my stuff to the fediverse so far. It’ll need a lot more polishing to attract mainstream attention, but it’s nice to have this option.

    • SamC@lemmy.nz
      3·
      2 years ago

      Mastodon is a bit more polished than Lemmy/kbin, although is still missing some important features.

      But the really important thing to remember is that the maintainers of Fediverse platforms will be continuing to make things better for users (overall), while Reddit/Twitter/Facebook will continue to make things worse for users (overall). In the long run, the Fediverse will be way better for users than the corporate platforms.