There was a time - when facebook/ig didn't exist, the difference was - back then nothing exists, and so the intriguing new thing (that didn't make money yet), was buggy as hell, and so the spread was FAST.

Thankfully, those big projects, whenever they make a mistake, the fediverse gets a boost.

I've been following the fediverse since disapora announced their plans circa 2010. I created an account on one of the instances in 2012 and probably visited it twice since.

It's one thing to be early adopters when something is completely new compared to something that comes to replace something that everybody is already using.

We'll get there. With every mistake these big corps will do, we'll get more and more people in, until THIS will become the 'cool' thing around.

Until then, it will be much much better.