I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.
Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.
Geeks are usually the first ones that populate any kind of a social network.
But, I would have to agree that I don’t think that the fediverse will become anything more than what it is now - a place for geeks to exchange info and their Linux desktop setups.
This is mostly generalized, but I seriously doubt other communities will get popular on Lemmy, like let’s say DIY audio or something similar. They have a good thing going on reddit, free hosting, no one cares who actually pays the electricity bills, the platform is free (as in beer)… not everyone cares about freedom as much as people on the fediverse do 🤷. I’m sorry, but that’s just how things are.
On the other hand, Lemmy is a perfect place to share info and data that might be illegal in some countries (piracy and sharing pr0n vids that are sold on other sites), so i can see niche things like these thriving here… set up your server at home or in China/Russia, set up a reverse proxy… pratically, you’re off the grid regarding copyright claims.
The nerds get chased out. They build a new platform free of shittyness. The nornies notice and migrate milking as much profit as possible. The platform becomes shit. The holy cycle continues.
The nice thing about federation is that if you don’t want normies you can just defed from instances that allow them, or anything with open sign up.
Yeah, to be honest, this is alredy happening with Lemmy, so I wasn’t surprised at all.
Not a fan of the reddit migration, I assume?
No, I was, I really was looking forward to this place and it was pretty OK at the beginning, the first few months, but I did like a pause (some real world obligations) for a few months and I just started coming back, but things are… somewhat different from what I remember them. A lot of abuse of power by mods…
I found some things going in the right direction, like the no stupid questions comm, but other than that… seems like people have gotten more uptight and posh… if that makes any sense.