I hate to break it to you – but we’re already here.
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Probably another big tech would fill the gap before. Sad, but that’s the most likely outcome.
I would say (and I know that is a controversial opinion this one) that the fediverse itself is a little to blame here. Not because the technical difficulties to join in that are not that bad, but because most people in the fediverse want everyone here to have a very characteristic political ideology and to be very passionate about it. Like 90% (exaggerating here)of what I read here and in mastodon are politics (more so politics from a very specific pov), even after I made a big effort to get away from political communities.
Most people have not that particular ideology or are not that passionate about it, so they take a look of what’s going on here and take the sane decision of not joining in.
I actually think that’s the bigger impediment for the fediverse to become mainstream.
wth is this question
The fediverse feels laggy at prime time and we are nowhere near Reddit size. I wonder if it can scale to handle millions of users.
Are you asking if the stricter EU laws around social media in the EU could affect how something like lemmy.world could exist there vs the US?
