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Definitely agree with this. Just explaining the fediverse to the masses is a huge challenge. It's like when Diaspora launched. They publicly had lofty statem
by snapetom 4y ago
Definitely agree with this. Just explaining the fediverse to the masses is a huge challenge.
It's like when Diaspora launched. They publicly had lofty statements about returning data ownership to the masses, replacing Facebook, "run it yourself," etc. The majority of people even in technology don't want to bother with that. It would have been hilarious to hear a Diaspora evangelist try explaining to the grandma who just wants to post pictures of her grandkids the benefits of her own Diaspora instance.
Relevant to today, you're going to try explaining to some guy who's only on Twitter to trash talk other sports fans, the benefits of sports.social or whatever? It's not going to happen.
- jeffbee 4y ago"Run it yourself" is the worst possible model of social media network. It means I will be strictly incapable of sending a video to a billion people, because I could never afford the hosting bill. It also means that I could never use social media to do any kind of anti-government organizing (protests, revolutions, etc) because even the weakest, dumbest regime on the planet will be able to DoS me right off the air.