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> Hard disagree with this. From me as well. > You can use any email provider and interact with any other email provider effortlessly. This is undeniably an im
by Semaphor 4y ago
> Hard disagree with this.
From me as well.
> You can use any email provider and interact with any other email provider effortlessly. This is undeniably an improvement over internal direct messages within a centralized service
But the general public went for siloed systems instead.
So I’d say you or me want decentralization, but I don’t think that holds true in general.
- dradtke 4y agoTrue, but it's way easier to add centralization to a system that is decentralized by nature than it is to somehow decentralize something that is centralized by nature.
- falcolas 4y ago> But the general public went for siloed systems instead. And yet some former Twitter users have identified why this is a problem, and are now moving back towards a decentralized platform. It's why scaling Mastadon is even a topic right now.
- Semaphor 4y agoA comparatively tiny group of outspoken people switched. And it's not even clear if they'll stay.