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about once a week I hear someone tell me that the fediverse failed and is dead (aoir.social)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/general@activitypub.space
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about once a week I hear someone tell me that the fediverse failed and is deadand every day I find something new on it, some new instance, or some new account or interesting posttake that how you will#fediverse

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The kinda people who think this place is dead are exactly the kind of people I am glad aren’t here. They value quantity of content above anything else. They don't care about community. They don’t even care about quality. All they want is a website that gets posted to at such an obscene rate that they never see “old” posts.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I have not expressed it before but I basically agree. If the fediverse grows fine but im good with what it is as it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Part of me thinks that maybe these people just expect that since most major websites have been owned by companies which are beholden to growth, they expect the fediverse to be beholden to that same growth. But the fediverse is not owned by a single entity, and does not need to make a profit to exist. It does not need to grow to survive, and its infrastructure means that it probably could not handle exponentially more users in a short time.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I kinda wonder if it goes hand in hand with people wanting voting and for the voting to mean something. I think they are not happy when they post and don't get a few thousand upvotes or something.

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Someone who even knows what the fediverse is and then has enough of an opinion on it that they consider it to be "dead" lies within an extremely niche, chronically online demographic. Best to pay those people no heed whatsoever.

    I've met a whole bunch of people in Portland, OR who are on Mastodon, there's even a whole meetup of just fediverse folks. I can assure you, these people are very much alive. 😂

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    @rwg dead for whom...

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