One thing that could combat big tech platforms would be one singular fediverse app with somewhat respective name to it.

The problem for mass adoption is scattered ways to connect. People in general want thingsa simple. Like FB is FB every way you want to use it.

Second thing would be to lure idols in fediverse and their flocs would follow.

I saw the frustration in my wife’s face when I tried to get her in. I dropped reddit for Lemmy and therefore I use this app called Voyager and I connected it in sopuli.xyz. She was like excuse me what? Then I explained this is my way, you can have bunch of other apps and connect to other instances and you can read posts from other platforms too. She was like excuse me what? Aaaand then there is this Pixelfed, Mastodon, Friendica and and and… with apps these and these. Week after that she managed to install Voyager, connected it in some instance and read things. She still uses big tech platforms as “there’s no one here”.

*eYou could be the one for precisely those masses that need it fucking simple. They have made their head dumber with algorithms.

What we really need is an alternative to the the original functionality of Facebook.

Staying connected with real life friends, family, and acquaintances.

Social event planning, sharing life photos, sharing life updates, hell even marketplace.

All the federated “alternatives” are basically twitter clones, which really is a very different thing at its core. I do not want to share family photos and life updates with the whole fucking planet. Just the 500ish people I “know” in real life. I also don’t want to see tweet like mastodon posts in my friend feed. Its a different thing.

I know friendica is supposed to be that, but in my experience, its slow as hell, and just feels like a weird overlay on mastodon.