Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?
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They could if starting out it was easier. Once you hit people with "sign up for any instance ..." you will loose the majority of non-technical people.
My best idea for addressing this is a nice clean hub site at a friendly and official sounding url, with a list of as many instances as possible that have open registration, are marked as for general use rather than as specific niche, and don't have any ongoing defederation drama that'd affect users. Then users can sign up there and be randomly assigned an instance without needing to worry about it.