submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by The_wild_card@lemmy.today to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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Is it gonna reach anywhere or die out like kbin and the way it is going i would say mbin ? They are also trying to dip toe in the microblogging platform as well and trying to use lemmy clients and that confuses me as they are promising some features lemmy doesn't have so how would that and the microblogging part work out on lemmy clients . Also srry if i am at the wrong /c/ and just point me in the right way .

EDIT: After some researches i don't think i wanna support sublink as the devs didn't open any issues or propose any contributions to lemmy which could've solved the whole mod tools issue for everyone but they straight up went to forking for who knows why and that is not a good look.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'll cut to the punch line: Chances are, only a very small handful (like two or three) of the current fedi platforms will survive for the long term. Mastodon is probably here for quite a while. Most of the others will fade into obscurity as the big niches get stably colonized, network effects become more and more dominant, and there starts to be less and less reason for anyone to switch. But so many of them are so much in their infancy now that it's tough to tell in advance anything about the future. Plus, the competition and profusion of new ideas during the current time will be ultimately beneficial for whatever the outcome will be.

[-] e-five@kbin.run 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I always think about the post I saw a while back that was like "I use KeepassXC, a fork of KeepassX, a port of Keepass". That seems very likely to be true in regards to the fediverse as well.

But I think that's great, as a contributor to one platform I don't necessarily see it as "one software above all", which might be bad to say, but more like we're all sailing on the much larger ship Fediverse, and it's been great to see so much back and forth between the different ones, for example one person helping get pixelfed's avatars federating, or piefed's blogs, which helped reduce page load sizes for mbin by 40%. It's quite possible we're all just slowly contributing to a lot of learned lessons for a yet unstarted software.

All that said, mastodon does have a ton of staying power, as you said. Once they fully support groups, and lemmy has stated they never plan to support microblogs, it's quite possible that mastodon will be a very solid experience for most of what people are looking for.