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If the network of decentralized social websites grows large enough, then it can overtake Twitter and even Facebook. Just as the World Wide Web won over AOL in t
by nbrempel 7y ago
If the network of decentralized social websites grows large enough, then it can overtake Twitter and even Facebook. Just as the World Wide Web won over AOL in the early days.
The network effect is powerful.
- robjan 7y agoThe problem is and always will be the friction associated with discovery. If I want to add my friends, colleagues or family on Facebook they have most likely already been suggested to me. One click. I didn't even have to ask for their handle. How can we create a more powerful network effect through a decentralised network without some centralised directory?
- snisarenko 6y agoI posted some thoughts on this in my Show HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844481 I'll quote it here > My long term thoughts on aggregators for fediverses: I think aggregation/curation sites (like pixelfed.club) can be a decentralized complement to the fediverse. The fediverse generates the content. Aggregators, can curate the content for specific topics and help new users discover content. Anyone can start a fediverse instance, and anyone can start a aggregation/curation instance.
- holler 6y agoWhat product features does Mastadon offer over twitter/facebook? Because unless it's something useful/significant, 99.9999% of twitters/facebook users do not care about it.
- moojd 6y agoMastodon can appeal to people who enjoy the idea of twitter but want to be able to have their own cordoned off community version of it with the ability to whitelist other communities that are allowed to interop.
- holler 6y agothat’s great for those users, but forget about mass adoption
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