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Your first point on Twitter's appeal is valid, but I don't think this is necessarily restricted to centralised systems. Discoverability is something decentralis
by lucideer 9y ago
Your first point on Twitter's appeal is valid, but I don't think this is necessarily restricted to centralised systems. Discoverability is something decentralised networks struggle with - look at the role the very centralised (albeit endlessly mirrored) pirate bay plays, despite efforts like btdigg - but I think it's very solvable. Somehow. With some effort and ingenuity.
On your second point, the IRC comparison makes sense, but Slack and Reddit are locked in ecosystems. Don't see how they compare.
Mastodon is basically IRC with Twitter's format.
- s73ver_ 9y agoSaying that Slack and Reddit don't compare because they're "locked in" really misses the point that most users don't care about that.
- lucideer 9y agoUsers care about lock-in. The fact they may not seem to care at the adoption point is more a case of lock-in, by design, being relatively opaque for most users, but they care when restrictions become apparent. Of course the nature of lock-in is that that's too late.