So last decade was filled with corporate social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc. And I mean it still is but perhaps if we play our cards right we can make 2020 the age of decentralized social media? Maybe we won’t end up being the top 5 pages on the internet but we just have to grab a good portion of people to compete more directly with the big corpos. Descripción
Gosh, I sure hope so.
I think what you said though —
— is actually pretty achievable and honestly my current best-case-scenario. I don’t know how realistic or sustainable it’d be for federated, decentralized social media to act as a full replacement for corporate, centralized social media. It would be great if federated social media could represent a larger part of the social media space than it does now, and thus be considered a viable alternative by the public.
My preferred direction for federated social media would be for it to continue taking creative approaches to social media and highlighting ActivityPub’s potential utility and interoperability. I’d also like to see more federated software which doesn’t seek to replicate existing services but rather tries to produce novel experiences. Rather than giving us Reddit -> Lemmy or Twitter -> Mastodon/Calckey/etc., coming up with more unique types of content to serve, or more unique ways to serve that content.