As much as I love the fediverse, its control structures can't scale. If it ever became truly popular, bad actors would overwhelm it almost immediately.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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I, and a lot of other fedizens, don't want the type of people who use BlueSky and Facebook in my ActivityPub fediverse.
Fedi is cool because it's small, weird, and highly enriched with people I'm actually interested in communicating with. I don't need or want the pool to be diluted with an ocean of piss.
Hot take? Blue Sky should be worked with to join the Fediverse as the twitter alternative and Mastodon should work to be the Facebook alternative
??? Why should Mastodon become an entirely different kind of site when there's already Facebook alternatives for the fediverse?
What's the Facebook alternative? Also blue sky is by far the closest to replacing Twitter with millions of users
Friendica is designed to be a facebook alternative. Not too familiar with it though.
Then make the "one true frontpage" for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it's good, it'll be used. If not, it won't.
But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:
Lemmy has lots of competing "front pages." How will one more change anything? A more generic domain name or something?
Lemmy.com Mastodon.com ... If those were the front pages that curated the top 25 posts and top 25 sub groups in the last 24 hours and it was a space where you could search for the groups you fit into or are interested in. No more confusing mess.
While not being exactly what you are proposing, you could consider mastodon.social and lemmy.world the de facto front page for each service. They are by far the largest and best-known instances in their respective networks. Many new users start at those instances, get their toes wet, and then branch out.
I'm not arguing that's how the network should be structured, though.
For mastadon, it's like 85% mastadon.social, Lemmy has it better with only 50%
Welcome! Thanks for the suggestion, I'm happy with having multiple sites and not one team having absolute say on content over the rest.
You know what's exactly as decentralized as fediverse? Email. Do you know anyone who doesn't use email?
You've just described the goals of Mbin. I congratulate you.
Gateways that ease the pain of entrance to the fediverse are a good thing. A single, centralised gateway that defacto controls all access to the fediverse is exactly what I'm trying to get away from
Just to be clear each site, Lemmy, Mastodon.... Would have it's own front page under this idea.
Most platforms have their "join lemmy" or "join Mastodon" equivalents already
I kinda like the fediverse as is. We keep slowly growing our services. We don't need to be social media.
We can be social sure but without the need to be ever growing. I would rather us concentrate on the people and giving us power rather than huge orgs that are going to do huge org things.
I just like that it's smaller. Like, you can actually have conversations (or slapfights :sigh:) and can actually recognize people. Kind of like something bigger than a small town but smaller than a huge city.
I'm not opposed to growth, and it would definitely be a good thing in the long run, but I like that it's not just shouting into the void here.
Hey,
Hope you're doing well!
As well as can be expected, all things considered. Hope the same to you.
Growth is a long way away, we already lost 30% of the people that first came on board (couldn't stand having to create their own content smh)
Thanks totally agree. And appreciate the comment.
I feel like this is still a community and less people trying to influence. Or less so at least.
Lol slapfight.
Why on Earth would you want it to take over the social media space? Have you not seen what those places are like?
I feel like the current Lemmy, if it grew to be as big as Reddit, would immediately defederate from a large section of Lemmy itself, creating many separate communes rather than the one (or two) we have right now
There is that advantage.
Why in Earth would you want it to take over the social media space?
So that the rest can be free with us.
But I don't like them and don't want them in my feed.
Mass-market slop troughs exist for a reason.
Because social media is controlled by big corporations and thats why they are such shit. Once Reddit, Twitter and Facebook falls and if it falls to the fediverse it will be controlled by the average joe not political money motivated operatives
Ah yes. The 'average joe'. :|
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