I see two reasons why it’s ultimately not possible to recreate conventional social media success via Fediverse.

1. Some services are taylored to the needs of already-famous people who will tend towards bigger platforms to maximize reach and drag followers along (e.g. what Twitter used to be)
2. You can’t make a buck by cranking out content here. The possibility to make a living off your posting draws the most prolific posters to becoming professional creators for big platforms. You can’t really do that on Fedi unless you already have a dedicated donor base.

That said, I don’t think making more fedi things is pointless. But they are probably going to be smaller things, niche or local, particular to the interests of a couple fellas, points of human connection.

Whatever the point of “BuyFromEU” is, this aint it.

The Wikipedia is doing fine.

Mumble literally still works. The last 20 years of UI design were a mistake, we must return to tradition!

The PrivaScore Project provides ratings for Keyboard Apps, and there are multiple options in the top tier.

Wow, the first project to have found a use case for cryptocurrency!

Just kidding. This is trash. I don’t care about fancy privacy features if the backend is tied to the Ethereum scam machine. Use Signal or Matrix.

Okay, Wero does not have a web application at the moment. Valid criticism.

I think it’s great that you use privacy-enabling tech, and developing these is valuable in my eyes. But nothing about your setup screams “mass adoption” to me. I’ll spare everyone the mobile OS adoption charts, and browser adoption isn’t looking better.

You just can’t put out an on-par mobile service nowadays without an app in Play and Apple’s store. I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

This is a non-argument, even though it made it onto Wikipedia. A mass-adopted Taler-based payment system would also require mobile support, which would be gatekept by Google/Apple.

Breaking oligopolist control over the mobile ecosystem is a separate battle and applies to both Wero & Taler.

That’s not to say that Wero couldn’t do more in this regard, e.g. publish to F-Droid.