I’m genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Network effects are incredibly strong. Xitter is now a disinformation and fascist hellhole, and yet people who should know better still refuse to leave. We have the advantage that we’re not growth focused, so we can can bide our time. The inevitable enshittification will do its job eventually, but there’s no telling when the tipping point will happen.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Network effects are incredibly strong

      Yet, Bluesky has grown to 35M+ active accounts, even though they started way after us

      We have the advantage that we’re not growth focused

      This is not an “advantage”. This is an excuse we tell ourselves to cope with our failures.

      The inevitable enshittification will do its job eventually,

      And when it does, the majority of people will go the next shiny “free as in beer”, VC-funded siloed platform and we are going to be just another “They don’t know” meme.

      • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        24 days ago

        As explained by the user below

        capitalist growth-focused approach

        Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!

        We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again

          • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            24 days ago

            ngl same :|

            For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don’t care

            Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don’t want to support him in any way

            Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people