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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So much of the systemic problems in the world stem from that sort of mentality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.