Unfortunately, a lot of people have to use them. They are two of the three largest social media platforms. As much as I love the fediverse, I don’t think businesses are finding many customers here just yet.
It’s a double-edged sword. I love the fediverse for what it is, and if it continues to be a niche place for good people to socialize, that would be okay with me. I would also love to see the Fediverse or some future version of it become a permanent replacement for corporate-owned social media. That can’t ever happen if major social activities that humans engage in aren’t represented.
I would like to eventually see government communications, brand engagement, sales (if not ads), dating, customer service, political organizing, event coordinating, ticketing, vlogging, etc. as a part of fedi, meaning that people don’t have to rely on corporate-owned communication for online community. Would fedi also lose something precious in that process? Yes. would our society be a whole lot better? Absolutely.
ive built an instance (https://moist.catsweat.com) specifically with en eye on helping people off-board! im going for a generic, reliable ‘home base’ that people can then get to the fediverse content of choice.
with all this de-federating nonsense goin on, i think its important we build reliable off-ramps to those giant platforms… but of course you cant help people achieve that if you dont interoperate with their old platforms.
you are absolutely correct, this whole thing is still wet behind the ears. the fediverse still has serious interoperability roadblocks… the AP standards in practice are all over the place. it helps that some brands are rebuilding their twitter footprint on their own fediverse instances.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have to use them. They are two of the three largest social media platforms. As much as I love the fediverse, I don’t think businesses are finding many customers here just yet.
Thank goodness. I came here because I didn’t want to be a customer.
It’s a double-edged sword. I love the fediverse for what it is, and if it continues to be a niche place for good people to socialize, that would be okay with me. I would also love to see the Fediverse or some future version of it become a permanent replacement for corporate-owned social media. That can’t ever happen if major social activities that humans engage in aren’t represented.
I would like to eventually see government communications, brand engagement, sales (if not ads), dating, customer service, political organizing, event coordinating, ticketing, vlogging, etc. as a part of fedi, meaning that people don’t have to rely on corporate-owned communication for online community. Would fedi also lose something precious in that process? Yes. would our society be a whole lot better? Absolutely.
ive built an instance (https://moist.catsweat.com) specifically with en eye on helping people off-board! im going for a generic, reliable ‘home base’ that people can then get to the fediverse content of choice.
with all this de-federating nonsense goin on, i think its important we build reliable off-ramps to those giant platforms… but of course you cant help people achieve that if you dont interoperate with their old platforms.
you are absolutely correct, this whole thing is still wet behind the ears. the fediverse still has serious interoperability roadblocks… the AP standards in practice are all over the place. it helps that some brands are rebuilding their twitter footprint on their own fediverse instances.