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From a UX perspective, decentralization makes everything worse, and those issues get worse with scale, unfortunately. For example, you might reply to a post on
by infotainment 2y ago
From a UX perspective, decentralization makes everything worse, and those issues get worse with scale, unfortunately.
For example, you might reply to a post on one instance, but everyone ends up missing your reply. Was your reply just not worth reading? Or was it a problem with federation? Both can happen. If there's only one giant instance the behavior is clear and ordering makes sense, but with lots of smaller instances you can have ordering issues, propagation delays, and the like.
- al_borland 2y agoThis is also an issue with new posts. While I was dabbling with some of the decentralized networks, I saw a post on one site, but wanted to comment on it using my account on another instance. However, I was unable to find the post. I thought maybe it was a propagation issue. I waited 2 full days and still nothing. I eventually gave up. It doesn’t make many experiences like this for a user to give up on a platform.