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I was bullish on SSB and it was definitely a cool experiment (completely decentralized; doesnt even need a server, p2p social networks!) but at the end of the d

by domh 4y ago

I was bullish on SSB and it was definitely a cool experiment (completely decentralized; doesnt even need a server, p2p social networks!) but at the end of the day, if those "benefits" are not explainable to the layman (or not even benefits) then it's never gunna succeed. Most of us are online all the time, and don't need a fully offline-first social network. I'm now much more excited about mastadon, though I dont really use any public social networks myself. Social networks amongst my friends have been replaced with group chats via Signal and Whatsapp.

rtkwe 4y ago
That's the big issue with basically all decentralized services, they usually have some additional headache from the decentralized architecture but the actual benefits over a centralized service aren't relevant to even the average technical user. Mastodon didn't really take off until the moderation and social environment at Twitter got so twisted post Musk the benefit of being not Twitter was nearly enough to get people to switch. Even then the day to day of using Twitter may not have changed for most people, it hasn't that much for me but I have a pretty curated follow list.