Discuit just went open source, could federation be next?

spaduf@slrpnk.net to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 90 points –

Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65

https://discuit.net/

For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that's been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?

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Their users hate idea of fediverse

https://discuit.net/Fediverse/post/1uXgawfH

5 replies in 7 weeks, with 14 upvotes on the most popular post? I don't know how representative that is of the whole site...

Even the main devs didn't like fediverse

Federated social platforms, I don't think, will ever become mainstream. They may work in certain niches or perhaps among a subset of tech savvy people, but I'm highly skeptical if regular people will ever migrate to them.

https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit

Not tech savvy regular moron reporting for duty