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?
This does absolutely apply to mastodon and pleroma, but maybe doesn’t apply to lemmy (where the focus is on communities so as @kixiQu@lemmy.ml pointed out, small niche communities can grow easily).
I still think it applies to Lemmy. Niche communities are always going to be niche, so their growth potential isn’t that high. There are communities here on lemmy that are also on reddit and the reddit size is way larger. If a community moved from reddit to lemmy, I bet you would see a ton of user growth.
For instance, If I wanna talk about web stuff, I can talk about it here on lemmy, where there are 200 subs and posts get around 5 comments, or I can talk about it on reddit where there are 200k subs and posts get hundreds of comments.
Exclusivity is always going to be a powerful influence for platforms