• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It feels like for every small step taken towards a decentralised social network we get a giant leap back to centralised networks run by surveillance capitalist billionaires

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      1 year ago

      21st century people have only ever known capitalist control, they can’t help it

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        1 year ago

        Eh, it also helps that it’s from a recognisable brand that people already understand. Decentralised social networks have a long way to go to meet the elevator-pitch test, as it were.

        Not to say that it makes it any less bad, but just that it’s at the very least understandable - I can easily see the “average person” saying “I want to leave Twitter” and just picking something is relatively similar, with a single logon page that just works out of the gate.

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      1 year ago

      But picking an instance is so hard 😭

      This is why we can’t have nice things. People literally want to be told what to do.

      • Pastor Haggis@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        But picking all instance is so hard

        I mean actually kinda yes. I’m pretty techy and I spent a few days trying to figure out which one I would use. Ultimately landed on .world because I didn’t want to do an interview. Other people might be turned away from that, but maybe it’s a good thing.