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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 …for the moment. Question is can we sustain the moment.

@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.