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> It’s down to a UX and service provider problem now. UX and service providing (including marketing) is 99% of the problem when competing against twitter/faceb
by WJW 6y ago
> It’s down to a UX and service provider problem now.
UX and service providing (including marketing) is 99% of the problem when competing against twitter/facebook/etc though. The technology for self-hosting has existed for a very long time, but most people are about as interested in hosting their own mastodon server as they are in setting up their own wordpress instance or nginx install.
- aklemm 6y agoNot the technology for self-hosting, the technology for a decentralized, federate Web. That hasn’t been feature-complete for very long at all. And of course it’s the prerequisite for good UX and services.
- WJW 6y agoI know older tech isn't as cool as the fediverse and friends but DNS and web servers have enabled decentralised blog hosting for a very long time now. The parent comment by ve55 mentioned "My vision of the Internet was always that everyone gets their own website, which could be a blog, or of course anything else" and that vision has been possible for quite a while.