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Email was already too big to fail by the time Facebook and Google got big enough to be able to kill it. Looking at stuff created in the last 10-15 years, are t
by clusterfish 6y ago
Email was already too big to fail by the time Facebook and Google got big enough to be able to kill it.
Looking at stuff created in the last 10-15 years, are there any federation successes? I can't think of any. (Blockchain excluded for the reason stated in the article)
- lokedhs 6y agoWhat's the definition of success? I spend far too much time on the Fediverse (mastodon) and if success is measured by the amount of time I spend there, it's the most successful service I use. Of course, there are few if any political leaders or CEO's posting there, but that's not a definition of success to me. I have thought about what would happen if someone like, say, Musk would proclaim that they're quitting Twitter and setting up a Mastodon instance instead. I'm not sure the Fediverse would be better off if that happened.
- clusterfish 6y agoWide adoption. Especially for social network type apps, which are rather useless without my friends in them.
- lokedhs 6y agoTo each their own, clearly. I don't think I ever joined a social network because my friends used it (possible exception of FB, but I'm not actually using that one. There could be correlation there). I have met many new friends on all the networks that I have joined however.