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Cake day: June 28th, 2023
  • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
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    1 year ago

    I think it remains to be seen. The rapid growth of .world has been the first real production test of how the platform handles more users and content. Amazing work by the team, but there are a lot of rough edges and it is a new platform with a lot of unknowns.

    The things that spring to mind for me are:

    • Sign up needs to be streamlined and made more simple, and find a way to not overload individual servers without just randomly assigning people to instances.

    • Live defects, bugs and things feeling rough around the edges.

    • Back-end build and scaling.

    • Duplicate communities across instances.

    • Account migration between instances.

    • Data retention past x period - how will various instances handle this with a large number of users.

    • GDPR and data request compliance from individuals, governments, etc.

    • Funding the costs and resources associated with rapid, large growth. How do people know what their money is going to fund? I think there needs to be real transparency, public roadmaps and backlogs and understand how / if admins are accountable.

    • How the platform and users will respond to large corporations or even individual admins on instances adding adverts, using / selling user data in ways the userbase do not expect.