It's close to twitter in features but it's important to understand the hosting aspect.
Facebook and Twitter have been hosting our social media for years, in a centralized way.
Federation makes this possible for every person, denctralized.
So essentially we're back to 12-15 years ago when private people were still hosting message boards for each other. All that changes is that those message boards can now federate content.
And everyone who remembers those days know that hosting a message board that became popular was a struggle.
Which is why I've opted to keep my instance small through various steps I won't say here but they aren't ground breaking or secret. I just don't want to give away my identity because this is my secret account on HN.
After 4 years on the fediverse, listening to issues, reading threads, my opinion is that we should focus on many smaller instance rather than a few huge ones.
Facebook and Twitter have been hosting our social media for years, in a centralized way.
Federation makes this possible for every person, denctralized.
So essentially we're back to 12-15 years ago when private people were still hosting message boards for each other. All that changes is that those message boards can now federate content.
And everyone who remembers those days know that hosting a message board that became popular was a struggle.
Which is why I've opted to keep my instance small through various steps I won't say here but they aren't ground breaking or secret. I just don't want to give away my identity because this is my secret account on HN.
After 4 years on the fediverse, listening to issues, reading threads, my opinion is that we should focus on many smaller instance rather than a few huge ones.