How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
I did read the article and pointed out multiple times in my comment that the end result posited in the article is already current state in the fediverse. This is already a niche community with slow development. Every new wave of users that comes to the fediverse seems to like parts but complain about the rough edges. And some of those rough edges get fixed, but not all. Then part of that wave of new users leave the fediverse. This happens over and over. The current MAU numbers on the fediverse are not where the numbers will be in a couple months. They will be much lower. This is a normal process.
Everyone who is here right now has chosen to be here despite Facebook/Twitter/Meta/TikTok/etc currently existing. I don’t see how one of those companies entering and leaving the fediverse would draw anybody (normal users or user/developers) away.
It was the expressed purpose of the article. I don’t know what they’re on about. Maybe they didn’t read it or just skimmed it.
I did read the article and pointed out multiple times in my comment that the end result posited in the article is already current state in the fediverse. This is already a niche community with slow development. Every new wave of users that comes to the fediverse seems to like parts but complain about the rough edges. And some of those rough edges get fixed, but not all. Then part of that wave of new users leave the fediverse. This happens over and over. The current MAU numbers on the fediverse are not where the numbers will be in a couple months. They will be much lower. This is a normal process.
Everyone who is here right now has chosen to be here despite Facebook/Twitter/Meta/TikTok/etc currently existing. I don’t see how one of those companies entering and leaving the fediverse would draw anybody (normal users or user/developers) away.