The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Megan McArdle titled "Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators." The article argues that Mastodon is falling into a common trap for open source projects: building a look-alike alternative which improves things a typical...

A comment by the EFF: “People coming from Twitter tend to think of the fediverse as a Twitter-replacement […] but that’s only a fraction of its potential. The question isn’t if the fediverse can replace Twitter … With enough momentum the fediverse can be the fabric of the social web, incorporating existing systems like Tumblr and Medium and outright replacing stragglers.”

  • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
    6•1 year ago

    Cool that the EFF is such a big fedi fan.

    I really like the fediverse, mainly mastodon, lemmy and peertube as they are, but I am even more hyped for what might come afterwards. It’ll be better the more successful they are, it can be great. Maybe these services won’t need you to host a server anymore (p2p), or will have better encryption, etc pp. Just clawing these services away from the big corporations is a win anyways :)