CynAq

Yeah, of course. It was a tongue in cheek comment that didn’t land well.

If the adoption rate continues and quality of life improvements such as efficient mobile apps keep getting made, I think it’s inevitable. But I also think it can be a good thing, especially if the distributed instance culture with semi-independent communities persist. If the culture shifts so much to instances just being nodes into the larger “verse” so to speak, the general experience could shift a lot with it.

In any case, with all the different user experiences available already with Mastodon, kbin, lemmy, Calckey, Pixelfed and Peertube offering vastly different experiences into the same ecosystem, it’ll be a lot more diverse I believe as everyone will find their own comfort zone.

As well as higher average IQ, it feels like.

Helping everyone according to their needs and letting them live as they like vs using any means necessary to establish hegemony over people not in your group, isn’t a difference of opinion.

It’s a quite literal life vs death struggle.

I’d suggest adding something like “even though you can access the content on other instances, the user experience will differ depending on which instance you sign up for”.

A good analogy would be using Facebook vs Twitter but being able to follow and post content cross platform from either of them.

One will not look and feel like the other, but they will let you read and reply to content from the other one.

For good measure add in reddit, hacker news, and discord in there too to help people visualize.

It’s also important to give people a few clear instance examples to check out, but you already did enough of that I think.

I don’t agree with the “it doesn’t matter which one you join” part because each instance offers a different user experience, even though technically they are interconnected, and depending on mostly the size of the instance someone chooses, their experience can make or break the usability of the fediverse in their eyes.

I think people should be directed to instances with already vibrant communities and then when they learn the ropes, they’ll find their best fit anyway.