The fediverse will have the same growths as most foss. It will start slow and continue to grow slowly forever. It will always be a bit behind the cutting edge but it will never get worse only get better. Its like evolution it gets forked the best fork wins the reat die repeat.

Every enshitification cycle we will gain a few people and once we have them we have they stay a lot longer than most other platforms. We will not win through mass adoption but through a long slow a painfull proccess of gradual accumulation.

And at some point it will become dominant eg blender, a bunch of standards, and linux in the server space. The tech companies live on the edge forever trying to outrun the snail that will kill them instantly when it touches them. Foss is coming it cannot be stopped it will find them and it will kill them

[–] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

*if we can fund it

I'm probably going to start donating $5 a month to the Lemmy devs (or whomever is the best to donate to) Vote with your wallet people!

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would reccommend donating to ur instances over the devs. The instances have ongoing costs that if not paid will shut down the fediverse far quicker than a slowed development cycle

[–] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ty I figured someone would point me in the right direction. On an aside, absolutely no one irl I've talked to has ever heard of Lemmy or the fediverse which is disappointing. I wonder how we get fediverse stuff to grow

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The .world instance is very well funded - they take more money than they spend. Not profit since they're a nonprofit, they save it as well as give to others. Meanwhile the Lemmy developers still don't have proper full time funding. This information is public. If I were you I'd subscribe to fund the developers for now. Lemmy.ca is also well funded.