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This comment on an older Mastodon thread is just as relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789302 I've

This comment on an older Mastodon thread is just as relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789302 I've also commented before as to why I don't believe decentralization is a solution to the problems of current social media and instead introduces problems of its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317513

throwaway82652 5y ago
As someone who's been on and off various Mastodon servers for the last 5 years, you're absolutely correct. Geeks building this stuff seem to be completely dismissive of the power of network effects towards Facebook and Twitter's dominance, they would rather pretend it's not real and just keep building inside their little bubble. Social media users just want to talk to their friends and meet cool new people, they don't care about dealing with stupid server/moderator drama which there is an absurd amount of in the fediverse. Any exposure to that at all is a huge anti-feature but it's unavoidable on a decentralized system. People attempting to romanticize the old days of usenet and IRC always seem to mysteriously downplay that part. I don't miss that at all, it was truly truly awful. I have a lot of respect for the founder of Mastodon but I suspect even he knows this is a losing game in the long term.