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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by noodlejetski@kbin.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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[–] Echolot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Discord is not a bad bet, but I think they still have like 2-4years in them.

[–] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but that i think would rather make matrix servers go boom ... literally i am afraid when i look at the various bugs and performance bottlenecks of synapse, which at least right now is the most popular server

[–] Echolot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Absolutely, I tried switching to it using bridges for all my messaging accounts and the performance was abhorrent, mind you just me, a single user on a self hosted instance.

[–] gnoop@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Discord might be it but not for a while. Right now they're one of the places people are flocking thanks to their forum channels.

[–] negativenull@negativenull.com 8 points 2 years ago

Stackoverflow (not quite a huge tech company) is edging.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's hard to predict - because despite the bad decisions from platforms like Facebook, Twitch, and Reddit, they are still always going to be immensely more popular than Fediverse / FOSS equivalents due to the network effect.

Despite all the bad moves from YouTube, Twitch, and Reddit, the vast majority of people aren't interested in another platform, they just want the current platform to not be rubbish, so they don't lose their current communities and contacts.

While I'd like for all the Fediverse platforms to become relatively "mainstream" that people will sign up for them, I don't think it's ever going to happen any time soon, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

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[–] Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think it would take a while for any social media to have one, then again I didn't expect Reddit to shit the bed the way it has. If there's any that I think will be specifically fast, it would be Twitch.

Youtube is the least likely, no matter how many times it shits the bed, people stick to it because all the other video sharing services simply aren't supported by the big content creators.

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