Here and there we see people earning and losing career over Twitter, Facebook posts, even if illusionary, it makes news.
When would Mastodon, Lemmy posts get enough traction to get into news?
Unlike them, Reddit has zero credibility, but still has many articles about it and internal reddit dramas.
Where would we as a fediverse reach the point ArsTech and others would refer to our post and comments as a proof of something?
We have a wet dream of them all relocating from X-itter to free platforms and self-hosting, but the first breaking point would be if they refer to us like we are real. When and how it would be? I don’t know.
It already does. Mastodon is mentioned every now and then. Some journalists know about it, since the twitter exodus happened. But I’ve searched for famous people on Mastodon and it’s still only a handfull. For example Stephen Fry and Greta Thunberg. So it doesn’t play a role in most people’s daily lives.
Lemmy is just small, niche and has currently too many bugs/issues so it doesn’t attract new users. (My oppinion)
George Takei is on Universeodon (on AP fedi) and Bluesky, as well. He or his management seems to be the type to try out new platforms.