by design, mostly. most instances are feverishly anti-corporate. so no marketing, no bots allowed.
it got busy for a moment when reddit put the first bullet in its head, but the world has a short attention span if you dont have critical mass.
That makes sense actually. Do you think the fediverse will still be able to pick up steam? If it did, I’d think advertisers would still adapt, they’d just have to change strategies.
it took reddit 15 years to get pretty big… i like to hope the fediverse can keep growing.
that said, right now the fediverse seems to be contracting. servers are shutting down/moving. funding is likely drying up in some corners.
we need more coops like beehaw. we need more tooling to handle that kind of payment model. and
::: spoiler we need some marketing :::
shhh i didnt say that.
I have seen some instances asking for donations, which is surprising considering they’re not asking for a lot, but also that they’ve made it so far if relatively light expenses are troublesome. Seems like even a boom in new Fediversers could actually be detrimental to some instances in the short-term, but I don’t really understand how it all works.
yep, theres definitely a scaling issue. the lemmy hug of death has taken down a few instances. i suspect there is capacity to double the users on the small instances without too much hassle, but if the numbers got ridiculous it could be… challenging.
i kinda hope the bridging over to blueksky gets a little more fluid so we can attract users from that market. im runnin mbin, which includes the twitter-like crap (microblog).
Shhhh. They’re all around us.
The feds?
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