Will the #Fediverse succeed if some group or person with a more business-oriented mindset comes into play? I remember how excited I was as a teenager when I first started using #Linux, with its core ideas, but only geeks really got into it.

The game has changed a lot since #Ubuntu was released more than twenty years ago by #Canonical, led by Mark Shuttleworth. Maybe the Fediverse and all its players, initiatives usually led by geeks, are in a similar state to Linux before Ubuntu.

I'm not saying the big tech social media will disappear or stop being used as the main form of communication by most people. This didn't happen when it comes to the adoption of Windows and Mac OS, either.

But we are not there yet. The Fediverse initiative is still in its infancy, and it's hard to see it as the same reason why people like me were so excited about open knowledge in our twenties or even earlier.

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