I’ve thought about it a bit and the Fediverse has been around for a while now. There are some really cool applications being made to replace the mainstream ones, but they just aren’t taking off.

Why do you guys think that might be? Ease of use? Addiction to the mainstream platforms? Lack of marketing?

  • Kinetix
    3•3 years ago

    I don’t want algorithmic ads rolling in the middle of a person’s sentence, or above every video on index pages like on YouTube. That’s what I mean when I said I don’t want commercial content.

    I would then ask to please say what you mean: ‘ads’ or ‘intrusive ads’ or whatever it is you actually mean - the content is the thing you’re watching, not necessarily the intrusive ads, and on Youtube I’d argue most of what you’ll find and/or see promoted these days is commercial (for profit). It’s mostly commercial content.

    Right. They get most of their money from sponsorships, but you can’t get sponsorships on a platform with no viewership.

    I’d argue that’s not the platform’s fault. Viewers can and will follow people and can and will discover things on a variety of platforms. YouTube is a behemoth now, but one doesn’t have to be too old to remember that it didn’t exist not too long ago.

    TikTok wasn’t much of a thing mere months ago. Zoom was in very few people’s lingo for several years until the media had a pandemigasm all over it.

    How much advertising budget has the fediverse got? 0? So, could take time for it to explode in to the hearts and minds of people like commercial platforms do. Yes, there’s plenty of refinements that could be had and done for user experience, but I don’t think, aside from app knowledge/availability, these are preventing people from ‘migrating’.