What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?

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    I don’t really think that Lemmy or Mastodon will really replace their counterparts. At least not for now. As many have already said, the federation system is too complex for many non-technical people. It would take something like a de facto standard app, that abstracts everything federation related away and make it feel like another centralised solution.

    Another point for me is the searchability of federated systems. Say you are searching for a technical problem right now, google will surely bring you to a related subreddit in just seconds. I have yet to see a Lemmy related search result.

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      I have actually started finding results for things on programming.dev on Google.

      It’s less obvious because it doesn’t say lemmy, but I imagine this will be more common as more content is posted here.

      Also, the technical issues involving new users is temporary. It may take awhile, but the user experience will gradually get better as time moves on.

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        I have actually started finding results for things on programming.dev on Google.

        That’s good news!

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        I have actually started finding results for things on programming.dev on Google.

        What was your search query, did you specifically call for a lemmy result or was programming.dev organically shown?