The Web has always been social. It's a network people use and communicate with. When I created my first website in the 90s, it had visitors. I didn't know who they were, except for those who sent me email. There has been forums, BBSs, IRC, since the 1980s.
So from the social perspective it does not really matter where your "instance" is, because it's already a part of a huge network. Your "instance" can be a website, a social media platform, or anything of a sort. It's a presence online.
The ActivityPub protocol that Mastodon, WordPress, Pixelfed and many other platforms online use, actually has endpoints called "inbox" and "outbox". The logic is very similar to email, but more real time.
So for those who criticize Mastodon or Fediverse as "difficult" or something that has no "reach" I want to say that any form of communication online (be it a normal website or Mastodon or whatever) has all the reach potential in the world. You just need to make yourself heard. We're too used to corporate platforms, money making machines and algorithms to do the work for us. It distorts the whole picture.
Centralized platforms have no future, but the social web is eternal.
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@rolle And the practical network-effect reason that it has little reach is that not enough people are on it yet - they're on other siloed platforms.
That's the magic of the Fediverse: you can federate with everyone and not give control to a monopolistic force... you can have choice in your platform (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Peertube, Misskey, Sharkey, Pleroma, Akkoma, GoToSocial, WriteFreely, WordPress, Micro.blog, ...) without excluding friends, retaining this choice for the future!
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@rolle I must admit that the lossiness of comments is a bit irritating and is a problem that likely needs a solution, but wouldn't say that lossy federation in general is. It gives users content based on their interests in an organic, user-controllable way, and allows a truly federated platform that is actually practical as well, with relatively low resource requirements (think practicality, environment).
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@rolle Wow - I just infodumped a lot!
(I've been reading up on it. Maybe too much.)
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@rolle If it was unclear, I totally agree with you here that the Fediverse does not have little "reach" by necessity. Accounts can definitely become popular (by natural social processes - you can't pay for it).
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