I'm on discord but not for the sociability so much. However, there are some hyper specific subjects that get served up there. Personally, I find it very chaotic.

There's a learning curve with using federated platforms wether it's Lemmy, kbin or Mastodon. Things will definitely improve as these platforms get more fleshed out but as is, it'll probably come off confusing to a casual user.

To give Reddit and Twitter credit, they made it convenient to join communities as you just need a single account to interact with hundreds of thousands of communities and millions of people. It's convenient as a user that you only need one account as opposed to 30.

If anything, we might end up reverting back to using smaller forums until the fediverse has time to catch up. I think it's unsustainable as a business model and we're seeing this with the self-destruction of both Reddit and Twitter where they're leaning too far to try and make a profit where it's affecting user choice and experience. Most people that ran web forums back in the day didn't do it for the money but instead they wanted to foster a community. Yes going back to that might cause the internet to get a bit more fragmented, but I think it'll work out for the best as both forums and the fediverse puts users first.

I mean, he's anti- Twitter and Reddit, and pro- Kbin and Lemmy so his take isn't that bad...

I think he underestimates the readiness of Kbin and Lemmy, though. Sure, they're rough around the edges, they're not full-featured reddit clones, but we can (mostly!) talk to one another and there's a lot of excitement about being on the frontier, instead of just another pre-packaged marketing-focused software appliance. We're doing OK, and we'll only get better!

What don't you like about this particular article?

I've been watching the Vergecast podcast lately, and David's take on a lot of this stuff is kind of wishy washy. I definitely think Alex Cranz and Nilay Patel have a better pulse on things.

oh my god the initialism for BlueSky is BS hahahahahaahahaahahahahaahaa

they must have realized? why would they be ok with this???

I don't think he called bullshit as much as he thought it has potential but not ready yet. Lol! I love the fediverse. Let everyone else find the next best thing that will, once again, get ruined.

He’s right. It’s not ready for the masses/ those who aren’t technologically inclined. Afaik ddos protection pretty much breaks federation which is a problem in of itself.
Seems to be a lot of work to be done still

I thought this was an IT Crowd reference, but no.

So that got me jonesing for the actual IT Crowd reference, which is here if anyone like me is desperately thirsty (b/c advertising has no effect on us, ofc:-).

I don't think those are strictly correct. There's no way Brisbane has 250k subscribers. The population of the city is only about 2 million and the channel isn't that active.