Centralized platforms have obvious and severe problems. Unfortunately, most people don't care.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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I love the cross posts: 3 hours, 3 hours, 3 years.
I almost responded to the 3 year post, I had to do a doubletake.
Well, he got one thing right: "tooting" hasn't taken off.
Honestly... almost 10 years later most of those points are still pretty valid.
I agree with all but #2 (mostly because that defeats the entire purpose of a decentralized platform) and #4
But I also believe that it can't go mainstream. If it did that would ruin what many went to these style platforms to avoid.
I believe the same thing with the Lemmy as well, if it became mainstream, it'll just ruin what is already here.
I can't say much on that though, since I was one of the "refugees" that came in around the time that the core ecosystem of lemmy started changing. So I'm sure some of the OG lemmy members feel the same about us.
Is Mastodon still a thing? I haven't heard from it in a while.
It probably has a user base an order of magnitude larger than Lemmy, so... Barely?
Tell that to my beans and rice!
The fewer people who know about Mastadon and Lemmy the better.
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