This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale.
Another paper that equates not changing the world with being a complete failure.
A valid viewpoint, I suppose, but some Fedi-things have certainly improved my life, which really, is how these things work: you improve people’s lives incrementally, and not by the hundreds of millions at once.
Of course, that means this is a complete failure because we won’t accept anything other than massive global success as success anymore because… reasons?
Not only that but … here we are. 🤷♂️