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I think the turning point to mainstream appeal will be when major existing websites switch their attached discussion forums to Lemmy, which will inject a huge amount of new users into the ecosystem.
Reddit initially wanted companies to be able to set up their own official subreddit as their official forum and the private subreddit system is designed for that function.
So, say something like cnn or tmz set up their own Lemmy instance where they only post their own content for people to discuss, as having that inbuilt existing userbase mitigates the most painful part of setting up a new social media. The share button might get replaced with "go to our lemmy instance" button, and the snowball will just get bigger and bigger.
The day that gets rolling is the end of web 2.0 social media as we know it.
Hi, can you explain what Web 2.0 means? Is it an actual software version or just referring to the currently pervasive paradigm of having one central authority owning and running a website? What comes after Web 2.0? Is there a Web 3.0?
Web 3 is different things depending on who you ask. Block chain, decentralization, or whatever else. We dunno, we aren't there yet. I personally believe federated services have a chance of being web 3 (and Blockchain is not relevant).
Web 2 is basically big tech on the internet, everything becoming centralized. Everything became easy to use for the end user, all point and click.
Web 1 was the stuff prior to that, when the internet was the wild west.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I'm excited to see what web3 is eventually going to be. Hopefully were moving towards decentralisation, not another corporate hellscape like Google(website DRM) wants it to be.