Last couple of months has been dramatic and there is a huge demand for ethical and safe social media. Even mainstream conservatives start to look for alternatives when US oligarchs wage hybrid warfare against their nation.

And there are so many low hanging fruits right now. Like Facebook event and marketplace replacements on the fediverse. Or just a Facebook alternative that isn’t Frendica. Or maybe a commercial fork of Frendica.

I’m not involved in any development of fediverse software, so I’m asking here. Do you experience more interest from venture capital?

Also, I assume EU will pour big money into social media alternatives, starting 2025.

Note: I’m not interested in a discussion regarding if VC is good or bad for the fediverse. That’s a good topic for another post though.

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    7 hours ago

    Hm, they have control over the instance but not directly (except if they fork etc) over the software? So comparing to reddit they can’t modify the UI to include ads, can’t inject tracking, etc.