I’ve thought about it a bit and the Fediverse has been around for a while now. There are some really cool applications being made to replace the mainstream ones, but they just aren’t taking off.
Why do you guys think that might be? Ease of use? Addiction to the mainstream platforms? Lack of marketing?
Lots of interesting points have been brought up here but a large amount of it can be chalked up to the fact that if your friends aren’t on a platform already, most people can’t be arsed to switch. Also, 90% of the fediverse are either programmers or people like me who are quite deep into the FOSS rabbit hole, so they can’t get their main content there.