Chris TrottierThe next wave of social media isn’t going to be with centralized Big Social wannabes like Tribel, Hive, and Spoutible.
It will be with decentralized server apps like Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica, *key apps, /kbin, and (maybe) Bluesky.
I don’t think Post will survive if they put federation on the back burner.
The era of surveillance capitalists owning your social graph is over.
System IV, Building K@atomicpoet …for the moment. Question is can we sustain the moment.
@goodthinking It takes vigilance.
zachmx@atomicpoet @goodthinking
email is federated but very few people I know use anything other than gmail. People always raise an eyebrow when I tell them I use protonmail.
I think part of more widespread adoption is maintaining ease of onboarding, and making it as easy as possible for non tech savvy users to host their own instances for communities/friends/family.
Otherwise I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re tooting to those on institutionally hosted mastodon servers.
@zachmx @atomicpoet Not trying to fight, but I can respectfully and experientially disagree with your first statement. As one example: Very few (good) creative agencies in NYC are willing to use GMail, because Google is regarded as a competitive agency, and a data miner as well.
The rest of what you say rings true to me: on boarding is friction now, and hosting is $ no matter where you go, so who knows what the traffic will bear. Which means commercially hosted shit. Ugh.