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[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the thing. You can't turn the clock back. As fediverse alternatives pop up and the social media old guard slowly declines, there will be a lot of fragmentation.

[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

It was just as fragmented before the monolithic platforms came and unified them though

[–] mordekaiq89@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine the pareto distribution will apply to federated communities as well