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by unity1001 1303 days ago
> Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb and I think more people are starting to get it.

The absolute majority of the people on the planet have neither the time and technical knowledge, nor the desire to maintain their own platforms or stacks.

Decentralized communities suffer from all the problems of user-friendliness and ease of maintenance that Open Source generally suffers from.