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The next wave of social media isn’t going to be with centralized Big Social wannabes like Tribel, Hive, and Spoutible.

It will be with decentralized server apps like Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica, *key apps, /kbin, and (maybe) Bluesky.

I don’t think Post will survive if they put federation on the back burner.

The era of surveillance capitalists owning your social graph is over.

@atomicpoet @goodthinking
email is federated but very few people I know use anything other than gmail. People always raise an eyebrow when I tell them I use protonmail.

I think part of more widespread adoption is maintaining ease of onboarding, and making it as easy as possible for non tech savvy users to host their own instances for communities/friends/family.

Otherwise I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re tooting to those on institutionally hosted mastodon servers.

@zachmx @goodthinking With all due respect, I think that might be due to your own personal bubble. Gmail is not the majority of email in the world. But it might seem that way if your friends are embedded in the Google ecosystem.

I, for one, know several people who’ve never used Gmail. They use Microsoft and Apple mail instead.

@atomicpoet @zachmx The great sell-out in my trade (IT consultant to creatives in NYC) was when a few of us started to go with Google for services. It became easy to discern the lazy — the used car salesmen — from the people who actually knew their shit.

@zachmx @atomicpoet Not trying to fight, but I can respectfully and experientially disagree with your first statement. As one example: Very few (good) creative agencies in NYC are willing to use GMail, because Google is regarded as a competitive agency, and a data miner as well.

The rest of what you say rings true to me: on boarding is friction now, and hosting is $ no matter where you go, so who knows what the traffic will bear. Which means commercially hosted shit. Ugh.

@zachmx @goodthinking @atomicpoet I've got email from my ISP.

Honestly, I think ISPs should also provide automatic Fediverse accounts.

@zachmx @goodthinking @atomicpoet I've got email from my ISP.

Honestly, I think ISPs should also provide automatic Fediverse accounts.

The ActivityPub plugin of WordPress is doing a VERY good job of enabling 'non-tech savvy users to host their own instances for communities/friends/family'.

This is particularly important because many 'non-tech savvy users' might use WordPress.

WordPress might even become the biggest ActivityPub platform of all.

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