Where's the Fediverse alternative to Facebook?
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I think it's existed for over a decade and is called Diaspora.
That's actually a really cool name, fitting too.
Proof of Stake will keep actual resource costs maintainable, and Blockchain does do some cool stuff for decentralization, and therefore federation. Right now Lemmy instances are tied to DNS. Hopefully in the future they will be tied to cryptographic assets. Distributed Autonomous Organizations are a great example of the potential.
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Wishfully thinking, but, I hope companies follow this
There's been quite a lot of large companies and institutions on the Fediverse, mostly on Mastodon. As long as there are people there, corporate will follow too.
Some examples:
- ARD, the largest German public broadcaster, has their own Mastodon instance (https://ard.social/explore)
- The EU itself has their own Mastodon instance (https://social.network.europa.eu/explore)
- The German federal authorities also have their own Mastodon instance (https://social.bund.de/explore)
Then there's all the big FOSS tech groups like KDE and Mozilla who are on the Fediverse too.
As long as there's an audience, people will come, just have to withstand the growing pains.
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