I’ve thought about it a bit and the Fediverse has been around for a while now. There are some really cool applications being made to replace the mainstream ones, but they just aren’t taking off.
Why do you guys think that might be? Ease of use? Addiction to the mainstream platforms? Lack of marketing?
Can’t exactly agree with the seamlessness because federation as is is still more seamless than centralized services. I can’t post on Twitter and Instagram when I only have a Reddit account, it doesn’t seem like an option at all. Federation? Anything is possible.
I agree, anything is possible, but the fediverse has never actually lived up to that. The only good example is posts showing up in microblog timelines and commenting on them, but that’s limited to blogs, videos, and Pixelfed. And on Pleroma, I still don’t see videos showing up in my feed, despite following peertube accts. Federation has a lot of potential, but it’s never been fully expressed, and isn’t enough to overcome the missing features that each platform has.
EDIT: Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. All of these services “federate”, but it’s hard to understand how they all interoperate. Everybody is looking at them as individual platforms, but to me, the grand idea is that the fediverse could be a single platform and each of these services is just a set of additional features I can use.