• @[email protected]
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    322 months ago

    If we’re successful, then we’ll see an influx of spam and corporate influence. We’ll have to make filters and blocks easy and effective, and in some way automated.

    If we can meet that challenge, we’ll thrive; if not, we’ll whither and die.

    • Draconic NEO
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      92 months ago

      Agreed, there will probably be a lot more AI generated content on it by then.

  • edric
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    92 months ago

    If the major social media companies still exist by then, I think it will still be the same as it is now. Maybe a bit more users, but still a minority in the space.

  • If we can fix federation we should be ruling the internet. If we cant then we will be doomed to go out wirh a wimper.

    Someone needs to establish some sort of non profit that has the simple goal of getting the whole fediverse to play nice with eachother. An account should be a private key i hold. Federated messages should be signed as messages not fucking http requests so the can be forwarded.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    Either:

    • continuing to languish in obscurity with its rough-around-the-edges UX that fails to draw in anyone except self-sufficient computer savvy types who smugly proclaim they like it that way while impatiently tapping their feet and glancing at their wristwatches waiting for mainstream socials to collapse already, or
    • wildly thriving, but dominated by an oligopoly of major breakout platforms that dominate the rest of the ecosystem, subtly altering it over the course of many small, tolerable nudges to the point that it hardly resemble what anyone who is currently here liked about it in the first place.

    My money is on the former.

  • kersploosh
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    52 months ago

    Mastodon will still be the biggest fediverse service. It will remain a niche player in the microblog world, as Bluesky gradually becomes the big player by stealing users from the platform formerly known as Twitter.

    The rest of the federverse will (hopefully) coalesce around fewer projects. Development is massively fragmented right now. I’m very curious to see which projects flourish, and which projects die.

    I do not expect the federverse to unseat large corporate social media and become home to the masses. And I’m okay with that.

    • @[email protected]
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      I do not expect the Fediverse…

      I hate to agree with this but I do. I would love if more people said fuck you to data harvesting and started denying access to everything as best they could; and decentralizing social media would go a long way in that. Unfortunately, too many people have too much faith in corporations

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    I expect it won’t be that different and will remain niche for the foreseeable future. Works for me.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    The same with some extra features and visually overhauled sites most likely more users though maybe a lot more but really I think nearly all of the fediverse websites need a visual upgrade they don’t look striking enough to draw you in there’s no edge there.

  • SavvyWolf
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    32 months ago

    This is a bit of a long reach, but I can see it switching to ATProto, like Bluesky. The fact that identity, hosting and moderation are all done by the same person in ActivityPub is a big cause of many issues and drama on Mastodon. I think ATProto would fix it, and give access to everyone on Bluesky as well.