[lyra_comms]

An open conversation service needs to be open to all, not just people with tech skills; we need to prevent large numbers of people feeling locked out of discourse, or left behind.

Also, many of the distributed/federated services we've looked at have rapidly devolved into niche communities often centred around sexual content. These two reasons lead us to think that a centralised service is more open and approachable.

[slipstream-]

With regards to mastodon, there's at least one hosting service specifically for it already (https://masto.host), and people who don't know that much about the Linux command line/etc have set up their own instances using it.

[lyra_comms]

I know it's hard to see it this way when one is into tech, but many of my non-tech friends (artists, philosophers, retail...) would balk at this.

We believe using a communication tool needs to be as easy as entering a URL and logging in - friendly, familiar, no new terminology.

[__s]

Sorry, but that doesn't fly in a technocracy. Oh well, just bow before the Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple overlords

[lyra_comms]

We bow only to the Hypnotoad.