alt Hacker News> Maybe the fediverse can (eventually) help? It’s been a while since I looked at it.
The fediverse has been around for well over a decade in some form or another. It never caught on with society enough to make a difference. And unfortunately, the fediverse has now developed such a distinct culture of its own, Highly Online people with distinctive political and social shibboleths, that it even alienates many tech idealists around the world, let alone the general public.
The general public isn't alienated from the fediverse because of its distinctive political and social shibboleths, the general public simply doesn't know that it exists.
As far as the "tech idealists," a lot of them seem to want every space to be 4chan where they can be racist trolling assholes without consequence. And those folks have Nostr.