A missing key to success for any social network is tons of advertising and I don't see any #Fediverse trying to get that
#Wired articles and some name drops in #Vergecast and #Timcast won't cut it
Don't get me wrong, this platform is great, just wondering what would define success
@realcaseyrollins I'm interested in the development of small communities similar to how the internet was in the early aughts. Breaking things up while still having interoperability is the best method forward.
@roguetrick
I do love how these instances being run by people with small budgets and admin teams lets this happen. It gets too big, they cant handle the users and close registrations.
@realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club or both. But I would argue the pleroma and misskey are better than mastodon.
- Something happens, usually on twitter
- Somehow the fedi gets proposed as an option
- The thing that started all gets attention, sometimes even from the mainstream media
- Huge hordes of users come
- Most of them show themselves confused, some people try to help them, some of them try to actually adapt to this model, other just talk how shitty it seems for them
- The thing that started all starts to lost attention and became forgotten
- Few of these users that came stay on the fedi
I don't see how ads (even if they success, that i also doubt) could bring different results than this kind of free advertising.
Someday you'll discover that the strength of the fediverse is that nobody is in charge and brands have no meaning. We aren't actually building products or trying to dominate the landscape, and those that think they are have watched as their efforts backfire. We're building the freedom to interact with other humans on your own terms. If you don't like your provider, you can switch to another one. If your software or even the underlying protocol limits your ability to express yourself or interact with your people, you can fix it or extend it or dump it and use something else or even create your own. And nobody can stop you.
What is the goal of the #Fediverse anyways?