Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?

ZTabs@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 959 points –

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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Being on the internet used to be not cool.

Email and www. ... .com was as foreign to the mainstream as the Fediverse is to the mainstream today.

The nerds build cool shit, the corporations chase the hot new thing to milk every last dollar out of the mainstream who want the cool new toys, and the mainstream inevitably ruins the cool new toy because they don't understand how or why it was made in the first place.

This is the way of human nature. It has played out on the internet since the start (and probably well before that) and it will probably play out again on the fefiverse (just look at Meta).

shit, meta has no place in the fediverse. Evil bastards.

100%, and their advertisers don’t either, however do their users have a place in the Fediverse?