Yeah, there are apps launching that filter BS for images (Instagram) or videos (TikTok) but they are quick and easy to deploy - BS could build those filters in itself.

The killer services will be standalone ones running on the AT Protocol. They'll get a tonne of buzz and will see similar numbers of users switching to them from the Big Web but, without safeguards, they will be indistinguishable from the older Big Web services and have the potential to enshittify.

I think if people writing open source software e.g. underpinning Mastodon would simply listen to potential users, then people would actually join it.

The problem is, BS has millions of VC capital (including from blockchain bros) and, at some point, they'll want paying. If the Fediverse had a fraction of that a lot of wrinkles would be ironed out.

Perhaps dansup's successful Kickstarter and the rocketing success of his Pixelfed show we can push projects on to bigger things. However, we'll always lag behind.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

It would help Loops even more if the code was released:-). Although the code is released for PieFed, Lemmy, and Mbin, and that only helps so much there. As you say, it's hard to compete against millions of dollars worth of investment. And the vast majority of users seem to care only about the usability of the tool, not purist reasons that it uses Arch btw, aka that it's open source.