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?
One thing we’re trying to do with lemmy, is to make it user friendly and content-focused enough that you don’t even need to know what federation is to make an account and start using it. Even without federation, its just a lean, self-hostable reddit alternative. Whether federation can be a successful way to get people off these giant platforms remains to be seen, but the user experience does have to be there first.