Discuit just went open source, could federation be next? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by spaduf@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65

For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that's been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?

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[-] mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

Their users hate idea of fediverse

https://discuit.net/Fediverse/post/1uXgawfH

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 11 months ago

5 replies in 7 weeks, with 14 upvotes on the most popular post? I don't know how representative that is of the whole site...

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

If it's open source, does that matter? Fork it.

[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Even the main devs didn't like fediverse

Federated social platforms, I don't think, will ever become mainstream. They may work in certain niches or perhaps among a subset of tech savvy people, but I'm highly skeptical if regular people will ever migrate to them.

https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit