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Will the Fediverse reach Mainstream in 2024?
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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I don’t think it will ever be mainstream. It’s confusing enough for IT literate people with a basic understanding of the concept, I can’t see it ever getting popular with the wider public.
My main concern is the overlap between lemmy instances, meaning me and my mate can be looking at for example a channel named ‘news’ and see different contents because we are on different instances. So you either subscribe to all news channels on all major instances and see lots of duplicated posts, or miss out on some posts.
Well most of the complexity would be hidden. For example the Mastodon mobile client hides much of it. You can even sign up for a server there.
Yeah there has been much debate going on about that here
This can (should?) be resolved by the client application. There is nothing stopping us from developing one single frontend that can pull data from different instances and shows it in an uniform way.