They are using YT shorts. The next video auto populates with something the algorithm thinks you’ll watch for 15 seconds and it’s usually correct. Its like a slot machine. Quick and easy entertainment that people can lose hours in

Look out, it’s coming right at you!

Probably not, no. I expect the biggest instance to be the one that keeps growing and the others will be obstensibly connected but mostly small or abandoned.

It’s not like federation is really the way it was sold. It’s not a bad system, but it’s not really how the internet works. Or more accurately not how people work. Users, customers, don’t really want it to work like that. Theoretically Threads is federated too. Not like their users are going to be chiming in to this thread.

I try to only follow the communities on my instance. I don’t like having the delays between one instance and others so I’ll just stick to this place where it’s all in real time

Plus if any defederation happens it has less impact

How about both are bad.

Using a browser, navigate to the following URL: www.google.com

In the search bar, type the query you would like to make and hit ENTER

Then you’re done!

Yeah, unless one of the fediverse sites can simplify I don’t see it taking off among regular people.