> Federated authentication and open protocols are a thing.
In theory, yes. In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds.
Lemmy is constantly mentioned in these discussions as an open source, federated Reddit alternative, yet the largest Lemmy instance has 1500 monthly active users. That's... nothing. There are tens of thousands of individual subreddits bigger than that. The "Fediverse" isn't going anywhere.
In theory, yes. In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds.
Lemmy is constantly mentioned in these discussions as an open source, federated Reddit alternative, yet the largest Lemmy instance has 1500 monthly active users. That's... nothing. There are tens of thousands of individual subreddits bigger than that. The "Fediverse" isn't going anywhere.