Blue Skies Over Mastodon

https://lemmy.ml/post/994433

Blue Skies Over Mastodon - Lemmy

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Good post. On the other hand, IMHO (as a non-Fedi-expert I should say), I think the Fediverse does not absolutely need to appeal to everyone. A lot of people are happy with Twitter, and a lot of people are happy with Facebook. Evolving Mastodon into a clone of Twitter is perhaps missing the point of building a different platform in the first place. Not to say there's no place for new ideas or criticism of course...

I completely agree. The goal for the Fediverse is to be sustainable. There's no point worrying that it's not growing as fast as commercial networks, or that it doesn't have the same mainstream penetration, or whatever it is people worry about. The only thing that really matters is that there are enough people to develop platforms and enough users to produce interesting content. This is already the case today, and things will only be getting better going forward as the Fediverse grows.

Maybe Bluesky will get more popular than the entire Fediverse and attract a huge number of users, and maybe it won't. However, I can guarantee that the Fediverse will be around long after everyone forgot what Bluesky was.