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Chris Trottier Nov 5, 2022

There's lots of hype about the Fediverse, and I'm getting kind of leery.

Hype can be good, but it can also be bad.

There was hype for the Steam Deck. It was good.

There was hype for NFTs. It was bad.

Yes, I believe the Fediverse is the future of social media, as well as the web. But this is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

Lots of things need to be built. Projects require more funding. Design decisions need to be considered with empathy, not with "move fast and break things."

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JM Santolin

@atomicpoet Well I’m not a supporter of the idea that anything interesting should (or will) become the norm — the not run but marathon thing.

It will surely still fluctuate quite a bit, probably growing thanks to Elon Musk a bit more, probably followed by a little drop after the hype etc. But other conceptions of how platforms should will and should continue to coexist imo