But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet
But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.
not everything needs a mobile app, sheesh. both kbin and Lemmy have great mobile websites.
They must be used to all the major social medias having absolutely butchered their mobile sites
Seriously, hate apps. Why do I need all the websites I use taking up space and background resources on my device when a web browser is a single app that I already have installed and already takes up its space and uses its resources? I always just used old.reddit and now I found mlmym which is basically an old.reddit interface for Lemmy and it’s amazing.