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> No one likes to check 20 different apps to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people Then why do we have Linkedin, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Orkut, What

by berkes 4y ago

> No one likes to check 20 different apps to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people Then why do we have Linkedin, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Orkut, Whatsapp, Instagram, SnapChat, QQ, Facebook, Hackernews, Discord, and Stackoverflow? What you say people don't want, is exactly what people already do.

m3kw9 4y ago
Because the medium is different. Instagram is different images, twitter is text, Fb is more local social circle. But if you have 5 twitter clones, no one wants to use 5
- mcv 4y ago
  The thing is, Fediverse could be all of those things. There's an Instagram clone, there's a YouTube clone, there's Mastodon that's similar to Twitter, and Friendica that's more like Facebook. And you can follow them all from a single account if you want.
  - m3kw9 4y ago
    They could but hard to compete on content
    - mcv 4y ago
      YouTube is the big one there. But you can still share YouTube content on the Fediverse.
- berkes 4y ago
  Even if the medium is different, the original statement was "no one wants to check 20 apps for 20 social media...". Which, as I've shown, is wrong, because already people do check 20 different apps for 20 social media accounts. If anything, activitypub fixes this. The whole idea of the protocol is interoperability: that you need only one app to check all of them. Whether they are 5 twitter clones talking AP, or a Linkedin, youtube, meetup, and twitter-alike talking AP: all are interoperable, and you can interact with all of them from just one account and app.