"Additional challenges to scaling the non-commercial Fediverse include financial sustainability, the risk of commercial capture by Big Tech, the maintenance of FOSS, and effective content moderation. Addressing these challenges will require moving beyond the aforementioned techno-romantic tropes, seeking institutional support, coordinating large-scale actions, confronting power imbalances, and pursuing evidence-based solutions."
rolltime (@[email protected])
Was recently made aware of this excellent paper about the Fediverse by @[email protected]. They go into a lot of detail about the social situation here from both an internal and external perspective, and I found the conclusions quite insightful. Give it a read! https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15383