Believe it or not, the *key apps, are on a faster growth trajectory than Bluesky.
Yes, Bluesky is limiting its growth through invite codes -- in order to drum up a sense of exclusivity. But they also have millions of dollars in funding, the love of the Tech press, and influencers.
The *key apps have little funding, are ignored by the tech press, and have spread entirely by word of mouth.
Still, we have now educated 2.5 generations of internet users that they don't use a service, they use an App ("is the service really called "Whats" if the app calls itself WhatsApp ?") and subliminally educated them that walled gardens is the normal, the new normal?
@lobingera @Chris Trottier There have to be millions of Mastodon users for whom the Fediverse is nothing more than an app on their iPhones named "Mastodon" and an obscure black box behind it.
If I were to get nostalgic, I'd reminisce about the Federated Social Web before the Mastodon boom when almost everyone on Friendica and Hubzilla used desktop Linux.
@atomicpoet yeah, I'm one of them, if only because with an app, you can log in once and stay connected, just refreshing the OAuth token as needed. With a shortcut icon on your device, you can bypass the need to navigate to get to a site, but as far as I know, there's no easy way to stay logged in. The browser can hold cookies to keep a session alive, but once the session times out, or the browser app is closed long enough for the cookies to go away, it's back to logging in yet again.
@atomicpoet
The bottom line is The Fediverse is not all that complicated, as a concept. Yes, it's a bit more complicated than Facebook and Twitter, and that's been a problem, but people do get it with a bit of learning. When they see friends in the Fediverse, having fun and can ask them questions, I think they will love all the different Apps and ways of doing things.
@atomicpoet I'm a fediverse/mastodon newbie who is curious about calckey so I thought I'd dip my toes in it.
As you can tell I have a mastodon.social account but I'm concluding calckey and mastodon aren't... "compatible?"..., which means I can't link my existing mastodon account, correct?
Sorry if this is obvious, I'm still getting my bearings around the details of accounts, instances and the fediverse. 😬
@atomicpoet@pixelfed yeah this is key for many services. Pixelfed, Lemmy and Calkey are the main ones for me. I have PWAs and they work ok-ish but a native app will make a lot of difference. #linux#floss#plex
@atomicpoet from some of the posts here I've seen about it, it seems like it would be a good thing to check out, although if it's really full of rotating emojis and animated GIFs, it will probably make my 61 year old head hurt so much that I might stop using it quickly. I like the stuff I'm reading to stay still...lol. The only thing that I'm waiting for to try it, is an app so that I don't have to open up a browser, navigate to the site, and log in again every time I want to open it.
Would LOVE to see what your compute usage looks like for current size. We're offering free beta hosting of #calckey instances at #FediHost to get sizing data before launch. Any insight would be amazing or if you know anyone looking, send our way: @admin
@arinbasu@atomicpoet@fediversenews
Do any Fediverse Apps display information about the App it was created with?
I think that would really help with improving diversity?
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