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Somehow they managed to miss the point that it's the handing over of information to these services that is the thing giving them power. Instead of Paperless po

• Kalium 9y ago
  You're right! They did miss the larger point about centralization. With that said, is it perhaps possible that they're writing for a more general audience that isn't particularly interested in the overhead that comes with administration and decentralized platforms? People want one, simple, clear, drop-in replacement for a given use. They want it to be one that's as easy to use as possible and trivially easy to get their friends to use. Most of all, people want to use something their friends are already using. Isolated, un-federated systems that require some level of technical skill (i.e., my late-90s grandma can't figure out in two minutes) to use are a hard sell.
  • iuguy 9y ago
    Ok, start here: * Nextcloud - https://nextcloud.com/providers/ https://nextcloud.com/providers/ * Diaspora - https://bitnami.com/stack/diaspora https://bitnami.com/stack/diaspora (not that you need to host, see https://diasporafoundation.org/#get_started https://diasporafoundation.org/#get_started) * Mastodon - https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/ (again, like diaspora hosting isn't needed, see http://joinmastodon.org/ http://joinmastodon.org/) Of the above, only Nextcloud generally needs some sort of hosting (which is reasonable given what it does), but there are plenty of low overhead options. It's not expected that normal people host their own Diaspora or Mastodon instances, there are plenty of open instances for people to choose from.