[im3w1l]

> Nobody except your echo chamber cares about using a distributed or user controlled system.

This is a straw man. Even people championing user controlled systems know that 99% of users would sell their soul to the devil for ease of use, or a UI with nicer colors.

[weego]

He is correct in that distributed and user controlled are not highlight features of a successful product. This is something a lot of developers never seem to learn. It is the product that will succeed or fail despite what technology underpins it.

[inopinatus]

Aye. Like television before them, people can consume twitter- and instagram- and facebook-borne content without engaging executive functions of the brain. Sadly this characteristic seems essential for truly mass appeal.

Forcing people to consider any aspects of federation will be an instant barrier to adoption that reduces the appeal by an order of magnitude, at least, and prevent any such service reaching critical mass.