Why Mastodon and the Fediverse “Failed”

What counts as “success”? In the fediverse, that’s a pretty nebulous concept. It hasn’t replaced all of Twitter or Facebook or any other commercial service, but so what?

I wondered this as well, and I thought if you implemented something similar but made it super simple to setup and configure it could maybe catch on. One way could be to build it in Golang and make it zero-config. This way it is just one file that you need to open.<p>Maybe this is what Nostr is doing. Do anyone have experience with Nostr?

Twitter alternatives can’t succeed due to existing network effects.<p>The only way to take on an existing social network paradigm is to add a feature to a separate already popular social network. E.g. instagram reels, youtube shorts vs TikTok.<p>Eventually would be better if ownership of data was separated from ownership of the client. Then landscape becomes much more competitive. Low barrier to entry to create competing implementations. The law will eventually recognize this imo