> And then have to keep their machines up all the time and also connected constantly? The idea would be that you plug the stick into a USB port, then it just d

> And then have to keep their machines up all the time and also connected constantly? The idea would be that you plug the stick into a USB port, then it just draws power from the wall and serves files over WiFi. Similar to the Amazon Fire TV stick, it would be a full computer in a small form-factor. > and everyone use single instance I wonder if this has anything to do with how difficult it would be to set up your own instance? We already have distributed social media, it's called websites. I think having your own website is pretty appealing to a lot of people. BlueSky is really just a worse version of HTTP with page indexers, which only needs to be that way because of NAT. > All in all - people don't care about it, they want convenience and nothing else... I know that people will not bother to migrate off their current software, but the product has its own pros and cons. Perhaps if they were presented with both options when they first obtained an email address, they would have made different choices. And actually, I think people do care quite a lot. Even something as simple as sending a file to someone is massively complicated by NAT. People don't like the fact that they need to trust their digital lives to a handful of massive American companies. That people lack knowledge of the alternatives is not a sign that there are no better alternatives. See Ford on cars, Jobs on phones, etc.