The Secret to Fediverse Success:
70% Marketing
20% Coding
10% Strategy
You want people to use your stuff, they don't care about typescript, they want better alternatives.
Copy. Steal. Replicate.
They want better familiar alternatives, not your nerdy idea.
Build for them, not you.
@dansup I'll just add to this (great points btw): marketing is the key, period. People will jump on a new idea if you nail the marketing, because once they see that everybody else is doing it, they follow suit.
But like you said, they don't care *how* you built it, they care that:
1. It works.
2. Everybody else is doing it too.
Just look at WAFRN for example, they built a kickass Tumblr alternative with both ActivityPub and AtProto/Bluesky support.
And they have a fast growing community, because they focused on building a better Tumblr, and have a vibrant ecosystem with many contributors.
Rockstar project, and devs, they are a shining example of how to get this right and shatter expectations with constant evolution.
Kudos @gabboman and team
Learn more about WAFRN: https://wafrn.net/
