I introduced kbin to someone today who asked what the fediverse was. I answered for them of course, but it made me realize that the concept is still technobabble for most people. The average joe probably doesn’t care or notice that server A is really talking to server B. Just have them find out on their own and if a mass migration does need to happen from A to B, just make a standard announcement.
We are obviously assuming different things: You think that there are only uneducated people out there. I assume that there are many interested people who would like to be fully informed.
Sure, there are definitely people who are going to want to know how everything works. But the community won’t grow and evolve if there’s too steep of a learning curve for the average internet user to just to join in
And why does the community need to grow? That has never been the main goal of the #Fediverse to be focused on. Quality over quantity.
Because for this to work long term we need adoption. Protocols only work if there is large adoption, which means making all this comprehensible to more than just the tech nerds that are really into it. Plus isn’t the whole idea to get everyone to start using these open protocols so we can make the internet a more open place? It defeats the point if we essentially just make this in to a niche silo too.
Also, I think “fediverse” is really bad branding. It makes this whole thing feel too close to those crypto-scammers.
No, it’s not. If you look “a little bit” closer then you will understand what a decentralised network is and the the “fediverse” - combination of “federated universe” - quite clear.