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  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yep! Many people discover this short coming on their own. Which means it’s basically a universal and objective failure of the fediverse at the moment.

    Something to be concerned about is that I don’t think there are any structural incentives for developers to solve a problem like this. Instead, the incentive structure is geared toward people making their own platform as a silo or making an app for particular platform that has a good amount of users on it. The federating protocol is there, sure. But the financial livelihood of platform developers is dependent on donations from users of their platforms. How many are or even want to be “fediverse developers”?

    I think there’s a pathological state that’s been settled into in this regard and I don’t see much talk or action against it.