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?
??? It’s been a month or two, if we’re talking about federated Lemmy.
This stuff takes time. For something like facebook or reddit, they had to be in just the right set of circumstances to capitalize on people’s interest, and they gradually grew for more than a decade, eventually reaching something that at least seems like expononential growth in the past five years. The reach and visibility that those things have built and currently enjoy is orders of magnitude beyond anything the fediverse has.
That said, it is being used, especially on Mastodon. And Lemmy is being used. I don’t think it’s a fair or reasonable metric to expect something to be as big as Facebook, one of the largest companies in the world, over a short timeline and to say it’s not a success if it’s not at that scale.