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.
Paul SchoeThe ActivityPub plugin of WordPress is doing a VERY good job of enabling 'non-tech savvy users to host their own instances for communities/friends/family'.
This is particularly important because many 'non-tech savvy users' might use WordPress.
WordPress might even become the biggest ActivityPub platform of all.