I hate to break it to you – but we’re already here.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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I think they might mean all european social media users. The vast majority of those are still on corpo socials.
Could you elaborate on what you mean please?
Edit: I seem to be getting downvotes, so Id just like to clarify, I wasnt being smart or sarcastic in any way, just genuinely didnt understand what the comment OP meant xD
People that live in the EU are already on the fediverse.
No no no… They’d have to be in the Internet first, and so far, the web is only Americans, Russian bots, and South Korean gamers.
No Europeans here …
Downvoting people who are asking for clarification on something. I thought this wasn’t Reddit…
Edit: Wow. Just wow.
What does the fediverse have to do with that?
I’m sure some servers will struggle with a huge influx but the fediverse as a whole would be ok.
Influx from what exactly?
An influx of folks moving away from US social media companies. The the twitter exodus of late 2022 but for all US platforms
There was no real Twitter exodus to here. Most users came and went back. Or ended up in Threads, stuck there since FB will delete their IG account if they delete their Threads ID or BlueSky and even that last one is starting to go down already. Peak was Nov, 2024.
Lemmy Stats: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
BlueSky Stats: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
That’s wishful thinking
wth is this question
Probably another big tech would fill the gap before. Sad, but that’s the most likely outcome.
I would say (and I know that is a controversial opinion this one) that the fediverse itself is a little to blame here. Not because the technical difficulties to join in that are not that bad, but because most people in the fediverse want everyone here to have a very characteristic political ideology and to be very passionate about it. Like 90% (exaggerating here)of what I read here and in mastodon are politics (more so politics from a very specific pov), even after I made a big effort to get away from political communities.
Most people have not that particular ideology or are not that passionate about it, so they take a look of what’s going on here and take the sane decision of not joining in.
I actually think that’s the bigger impediment for the fediverse to become mainstream.
Totally agree. A lot of negative people here that will push away the average person. I’m talking about political fanatics of course. Maybe some subs need to create a no politics rule.
I block all politics.
Lemmy.zip has implemented Default Blocks so that new joiners have politics communities hidden from their All feed: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677
The fediverse feels laggy at prime time and we are nowhere near Reddit size. I wonder if it can scale to handle millions of users.
Are you asking if the stricter EU laws around social media in the EU could affect how something like lemmy.world could exist there vs the US?
