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No. The whole fediverse thing is niche and likely always will be. That might be a good thing though.
It's definitely a good thing. If someone wants to be on the popular platform go back to Reddit or Twitter. That's what most people want. The Fediverse is the minority that wants something different.
I'd argue plenty of people are simply not aware such alternatives even exist, and don't bother researching.
Internet could be a different place if more people cared.
With that said, even then we'd probably be in a minority.
I think a lot of people would like the idea of decentralized social media in principle but most of them just want to download an app on their iPhone and get going instead of learning anything.
That can be done with Lemmy too, there are plenty of iOS clients
Right now, it's definitely a good thing it's not popular. We are not in any way shape or form ready for the spam that popular platforms receive.
Yeah I don't want it to become a cesspit like Reddit, Facebook, and Xitter.
You'd typically think the abuse that happens on a higher level than dumb spam which those platforms succumb to would be even worse, but I feel we're somehow in a slightly better position to regulate that on Lemmy because of the delegation of moderation to users rather than instance admins.
We "just" need a relatively small amount of the "right" people to effectively counter that.
The problem is that who and what you consider to be right is extremely subjective.
Their success is relatively easy to measure objectively by their effectiveness at protecting communities from i.e. subtle trolls or troll enablers.
Though one's opinion on topics can influence the ability to spot such scum in the moment, the "right" people/a good moderator will know how to do that despite their topical (dis)agreements.