The article became better as it went along. At the end I really wanted to increase my own FLOSS skills.

I think what the Fediverse mainly needs is more people with IT skills and money and infrastructure to host this stuff. Mastodon still doesn't appeal to mainstream users, Lemmy is still having federation issues and missing central features. It will all still take years. Another thing is the problem of hosting all of this stuff, if it should scale.

I also used to write articles like this here, and I'm not completely against them if they don't actually call for any ridiculous actions against big tech in a "revolution" (not a big butlerian jihad fan; make code not memes). At the end I guess I feel to be on the same page as her: I want to increase my own coding skills to effectively contribute something to the Fediverse (meaning without getting burned out in the process).