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> but in reality they just want Facebook without Facebook actually owning their data Truer words-. Thank you both for working on diaspora* and also for your su
by BugsJustFindMe 9y ago
> but in reality they just want Facebook without Facebook actually owning their data
Truer words-. Thank you both for working on diaspora* and also for your subsequent realization that completely-unnecessary-decentralization-just-for-its-own-sake is not actually what 99.9% of people want. They just want to be in control of their data.
- dnel 9y agoDecentralisation provides no benefits to users, only burdens. Federation is there to provide scalability and resilience to admins and designers of the network. The ultimate federated social network is the one that does not need to mention it at all to users because it has zero impact on how they use it.