@humanetech @keith @NGIZero @EC_NGI

if i were to speculate i'd think they mentioned it because it's too big to ignore but they don't actually desire for the fediverse to succeed

because fedi has kinda grown into a thorn against big money social media, having already proven itself to work just fine without the big money, and having grown to where it is out of pocket scale money for servers and domains

which isn't desirable to vulture capitalists that want the next big thing to be something they can milk money from and leave to wilt away when it stops growing

but decentralization has gained too much traction already, so if i had to guess I'd expect to see attempts to co-opt decentralisation, and snuff out what we already have in favor of similar looking platforms tweaked to be more favorable to money

(tbh i think crypto was already an attempt at this, noting crypto social media, but it turned out people don't actually want social media built entirely around money)

@humanetech @keith @NGIZero @EC_NGI i was more meaning the concept of decentralization was too big to ignore, not necessarily the implementation had too much traction to be unseated

(i had initially written a longer version of that but i ended up trimming it down to keep under 1000 char)

i wasn't intending to insinuate that fedi was secure in its position, just that fedi is big enough to sustain itself and grow on its own with even government organizations having instances now, and due to the nature of decentralisation you can't just wish it away as people will just keep running it, thus too much traction to be ignored

but i don't disagree fedi could be at risk, as if you know it's likely to keep growing and you don't want it to be fedi but can't shut it down, you might try co-opting the decentralised point from fedi, which if you got a critical mass could allow you to overshadow fedi with a more "preferable" option and at least stop fedi from being the first option new people go to

@humanetech @gme @cope afaik mastodon supports viewing edits but not creating edits (i think i heard somewhere they're holding off until edits are more widely supported first, but don't quote me on that I've not bothered to confirm it)
akkoma and i think pleroma develop support both viewing and creating edits
and misskey (or at least foundkey) supports neither currently

i don't know what the support state is in others like friendica, gnu social, epicyon, pixelfed, or gotosocial

@humanetech @gme @cope no, I'm not currently involved with the akkoma project

I'm just active in the side of fedi where foundkey and akkoma are commonly used, so i more or less hear of the state of things with them

i wouldn't mind being involved with a fedi project, but I've got other things to do so I'm not actively seeking out involvement

@humanetech @gme @cope foundkey is a fork of misskey, its kinda like to misskey what akkoma is to pleroma, it exists as a response to issues in the upstream it was forked from