Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast
Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast
The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to Robert Gehl, an expert on alternative social media platforms, about decentralised social media.
Mostly just talked about Mastodon. And the researcher thinks Bluesky is on the same path as Twitter, given its venture capital investors.
Analogy he used was comparing fediverse to e-mail, and how successful that was.
“Poorly”
Is that what they say or what you're saying?
Me. You can’t deny that lemmy and mastodon feel shoddy compared to the big names. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t use the other motherfuckers, but there are tons of times where I reload my feed and it errors or is empty.
Just the nature of running your own services, and I accept it.
But still, anyone coming from Reddit is going to 100% say it feels shoddy.
In which regard? Not enough Nazis? Not enough analytics following you around the net building a profile on you?