Well, OwnCast exists.
QubesOS
And that's a good thing, in your opinion?
Mastodon grew, but only took a tiny slice of Twitter
Growth is not the only, nor even main, metric to measure success of fedi. Fedi is not a VC-funded startup that needs to grow exponentially to remain viable (consider how that worked for Twitter and Reddit…).
Building a resilient, safe, longterm-viable communities is the metric to measure fedi by. That takes more time, than hooking people on endorphin/noradrenalin high and slick interfaces.
half of Mastodon are bots or people who crosspost to both.
This is false. I follow a couple of thousand people and have an interesting, diverse, funny, and informative timeline. Very few accounts I follow crosspost.
There is no recommendation algorithm so your timeline is what you make of it. It takes a bit more time to curate, but you end up with your own thing that suits you — if you put in the tiny bit of effort required.
"How to fund fedi" is an important, valid question.
"Use DAOs/cryptocurrencies to fund fedi" is a completely wrong answer.
You forgot about Google+, which Google was pushing hard (forcing YouTube users to have Google+ accounts even!) and then shut down. 😄
Fun fact: Google+ started after the early version of Fediverse, and shuttered years ago. There is continuity on fedi with some instances running continuously since before Google+ was a thing. 👈
And completely unacceptable.
This. 👆 👆 👆
Honestly, I know we hate this practice in video games but it could actually help federation.
No it could not. It would just lead to capture by cryptobro libertarians.
Donate $5 to keep fediverse instance running? :drake_no:
Why not? What's wrong with donating for things?
Buy $5 profile border that looks like it was ripped from GeoCities? :drake_yes:
Which can totally be done with no bollockschain involved what-so-ever.
Well, an imgur alternative does not need to be federated, if it's to be used to only host large content. Imgur does not have any real social features, as far as I understand, either.
So any simple image/video hosting tool should do. I mean, you could also just use imgur!