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?
The inertia of using the ‘mainstream’ platforms will be one of the hardest things to overcome… If all your friends and family are on platform X, and they’re not coming to platform Y with you… well, it could be a rather boring experience… at least at first…
Its been difficult to try to get my friends and fam to move to matrix for chat… and that one even has solid apps. First mover advantage, especially if people see something as “good enough” , is really hard to overcome.
It’s one of the only reasons I keep an account on things like Twitter - basically to advocate for the fediverse, and apps like Lemmy, Peertube, Pleroma etc…
LOL. I’ve been using Matrix for years and only recently a good mobile app (Fluffychat.im) emerged. Element.io, the reference client, is pretty shit. It’s slow, it uses lots of resources (Electron gone very wrong) and it’s way too complicated to use for regular people.
Maybe for you it has good apps. But if we think about it rationally, the Matrix ecosystem is still place for geeks and nerds.
On desktop I’ve been using nheko for a while now, its been pretty solid, has e2ee, reactions, etc. On mobile, element is wonderful, its a native app, not react-native or anything like that.
yeah the element app is just as good if not better than hangouts (which is what we used before)
Yeah, it seems to be written in Kotlin. That surprised me, because in comparison with Fluffychat it was very slow, even a few weeks ago.