@agreedyboi i'm hoping this continued wave of profit-seeking ventures on previously free products encourages a far more varied use of programs and networks like the fediverse. i still expect there to be big central places like twitter/reddit/discord. but the more variance the better imo

@exiliaex Yeah, I'd love if this led to more popularity of decentralised alternatives. That's probably the biggest positive here.

@agreedyboi the problem with the decentralised alternatives rn is that they all are like... 80% of the way to being good.

we need the pushes that'll make these services and softwares better. mastodon has *so* many UI "weirdnesses" that you just have to get used to or have someone explain to you. that sucks. it should be far more intuitive than it is for the average user. and there should be simpler setup experiences too, for people to run their own servers.

@exiliaex 100% agree, like every time i talk about this site as an example, i always have to explain it. It's never an easy convo to explain this, and then to show them, i even have to explain yknow what local is or how do i do x, etc. I think the biggest thing stopping this is the UI. If it changed that there would be so many people joining this tbh.

I don't know much about the server side, tho it probably isn't exactly a walk in the park, i assume.