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i wonder if it is though, considering that fact that we have captured federated instances like .world or discord that have as much dominance in all the fediverse islands like the lemmyverse as something like reddit or facebook has on all of centralized social media.
even if we were to somehow remove the influence of neoliberal controlled platforms on the fediverse; the rest of the fediverse doesn't even mention currently active movements like the "music festivals" taking place all over the united states that centralized social media is struggling to suppress due to the sheer volume of supporters.
Yes, and the way to solve this is to develop the platforms more. I tend to think of the fediverse as a work in progress, and will be maybe the grandparent of better networks that have less failings. Certainly it is a necessary step.
We can help by both supporting the current iterations: either in funding or programming or just using it. And thinking of the next steps