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Fediverse is a niche thing for people who care more about decentralisation for the sake of decentralisation rather than the actual social media aspect.

>>jstx1+(OP)
Not in my experience, personally. There's a fair few artists who have art accounts on mastodon.socal and the related mastodon servers - especially handy for NSFW artists of all stripes.

two examples: https://mastodon.social/@kradeelav https://mastodon.social/@chirart

>>jstx1+(OP)
I don't know where you get this notion. Fediverse is small with only about 4 million accounts spread out on a couple 1,000 instances. Social aspects are taken very seriously though, and have created a unique atmosphere and culture. Netiquette is taken seriously, and devs take care to avoid building social features that are harmful.

>>jstx1+(OP)
I can remember when a lot of widespread network platforms were niche. Twitter and post Twitter started this VC instant popularity expectation.

I don't mean to advocate for Mastodon or anything else in particular, but these things sometimes have a way of being niche until they're not.

I also think part of the parent's argument was that in encountering obstacles like this, groups of nonprofit institutions such as art museums could leverage their position to promote decentralized systems, rather than simply throw up their hands and go with a sensationalized move.

Then again we are here discussing it. But then again if they banded together to post on some decentralized platform we'd probably be talking too.

>>jstx1+(OP)
The Internet was once a niche thing for people who cared about decentralisation and interoperability. Otherwise we would be in "I can't get to HN, it's on the AT&T network" or "Only $5 more to upgrade to the Tech Websites Package!" territory today.

There's no reason social media shouldn't be more decentralized and federated. European institutes can and should consider open source, federated alternatives unless they want to be forced to play by the rules of the big social media providers.

>>jstx1+(OP)
I'm on mastodon because it's a nice social network. It doesn't even need to grow, it's fine as-is.