ShoqWe are at most, a few months away from apps with content and sharing mechanisms just not possible on Twitter or other centralized, closed-source platforms. That's when the momentum will really start to build for Activitypub and other protocols supporting federated networks. We have stop talking about it being a twitter "alternative" and start talking about is as an evolutionary step forward in global social networking. Because that's what it is.
bitzero@shoq Agreed. But I also think that decentralization in general, and its implications for the fragmentation of social/power structures, is a topic many average users are not interested into. Not now, at least.
The internet/web was decentralized by design but the centralization of web2 made things a lot easier for (relatively) less tech people. We should not underestimate this.
But yes, the evolutions of platforms like Mastodon is a big chance not to be missed.