Here and there we see people earning and losing career over Twitter, Facebook posts, even if illusionary, it makes news.
When would Mastodon, Lemmy posts get enough traction to get into news?
Unlike them, Reddit has zero credibility, but still has many articles about it and internal reddit dramas.
Where would we as a fediverse reach the point ArsTech and others would refer to our post and comments as a proof of something?
We have a wet dream of them all relocating from X-itter to free platforms and self-hosting, but the first breaking point would be if they refer to us like we are real. When and how it would be? I don’t know.
I think everybody who’s anybody is on Threads but nobody uses it
something will probably just break out from time to time, like 4chan. although, something breaking out of here is more likely to attract more long-term users than 4chan I assume, this place is a bit more welcoming
It did create a bit of a splash back when Mastodon got together and played a huge part in saving the Texas Observer.
As for being used of a source of what random people are talking about, I think that’s further off for three reasons:
- The biggest platform is a better source
- It doesn’t go well with decentralisation - you want to report what’s going on inside one big, centralised service
- It tends to be pretty worthless lazy journalism. The journalists who have been converted to Mastodon tend to avoid writing sloppy pieces about what people are talking about online - they rejected Twitter for a reason.
It depends. Instances like Mastodo may start having some weight in future but I don’t think that Lemmy will loose his ‘niche’ status anytime soon. Discord have more users as well, but you never hear of him in the news, people know Discord but is still not mainstream.
As far as mainstream is concerned. Discord is known as “That platform where moderators groom kids” since that’s the only things that ever reach the news
the only thing I hear about it on the news is the occasional War Thunder leak
Hopefully not before things balance out a bit. Things get a bit to polarized here. I’m not too sure I’d want to have the current snapshot be what represents Lemmy.
Best to keep out of the public eye until it’s a bit less embarrassing.
