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how many of those have never seen real use/adoption above hobbyists/diehards, though? irc and sms is about it from that list. it was a drag getting people to dr
by satsuma 8y ago
how many of those have never seen real use/adoption above hobbyists/diehards, though? irc and sms is about it from that list. it was a drag getting people to drop skype for telegram, despite telegram being (in my opinion) more user friendly. getting them to go to something like gnusocial would be damn near impossible.
decentralized youtube might be easier to get rolling, on the other hand. all it takes is sharing your videos through it instead of youtube. think about how most people found youtube -- someone linked them a video, statistically likely to be evolution of dance. no reason that can't be done with peertube.
- qop 8y agoPeople made this argument about cars when they were still riding horseback. Let's not defend the worse thing here.
- jabbadabbadooba 8y agoIt's like people pretend the internet has been around for ages and things just are unable to change anymore.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoHandwaving away criticism by saying, "People in the past have been wrong about things before" isn't really addressing anything.
- qop 8y ago??? I already addressed it. Without censorship, decentralized products can thrive. And they currently are. HN's response was "but they're not very big!!!1!"
- satsuma 8y agoi'm not sure that's a valid argument. cars have a clearly tangible benefit above riding horseback, even early automobiles. what's the tangible benefit to a decentralized system like this other than twitter/facebook/social media company not owning your data? the parent comment to my initial post said the absence of censorship, but anecdotally the kinds of people i've seen going to "censorship-free" alternative sites are the kinds i don't particularly care to associate with. voat.co being the "shining" example