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by lyra_comms 2961 days ago
Decentralised social networks are a bad idea. Communication tools need to be inclusive and open to everyone, especially laypeople. Decentralised tools and blockchain turn off non-techies, and are overkill for the social networking problem.
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People use decentralized things all the time without a problem. Email, for example. They can use a shim like Gmail, decide one day they hate it, switch to something else, and still email everyone in roughly the same way without convincing all those people to migrate somewhere simultaneously.
Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell.
That's an implementation problem mainly caused by decentralized social networks being designed mainly by techies for techies, and touted in technical circles.