I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.

Yeah, without a recommendation engine, or a for profit model, fediverse is destined to stay an enthusiast space.

Truth is, fediverse’s more fragile than people wanna Admit, that’s my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there’s no for profit model that’s running these servers. That’s bad because running social media is expensive.

Second fediverse’s still utility first, user experience second priority. there’s no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.

Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.

Also it’s just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that’s not as fully baked as corporate owned social media

Exactly, fediverse tikrok gives a lot of “eco-friendly cigarette” vibes.

Oh my god. Silksanity is now spreading to lemmy. /S

Fediverse is still federated. I was talking about storing data decentralised, like using ipfs

Servers like centralised data storage

Thanks! I’ll check it out.