probably not; Popular Social Media is a massive force

Best we can do is continue trucking along while popular social media goes through the Enshittening Cycle, and swoop in and be like “hey, have you heard of Lemmy?”

like I think the growth will be over a long timespan than exponential, unless Social Media really shits the bed

The federation aspect of it has to be invisible to the user. The user shouldn’t have to pick an instance (unless they want to) and they should see communities from all instances by default. Also we need a discovery algorithm. That’s the most needed feature.

I think it could, and I also think it won’t and that it will stay in the relative niche. But that’s a good thing. So it replaces all social media for me but doesn’t bring the general public. Win-win situation

Yes.

Before we had the fediverse - long before it - we had Usenet: people conversing globally in email-shaped units. It was shared and synched.

It was awesome. Questions answered, points debated, everything you wanted.

I don’t think the fediverse is a magical solution, but it does have a familiar feel to it. Not as good when it comes to spelling, but “it’s just the web,” so the rules are maybe different.

This is fine.