[d0gbread]

I'm certainly not advocating for a single point of failure, but rather a monetized, competitive space that competes on user experience. More akin to music streaming than movie streaming.

I think Usenet and forum numbers probably pale in comparison to Reddit type platforms. Centralization is easier for mass appeal

[BaseballPhysics]

> but rather a monetized, competitive space that competes on user experience. More akin to music streaming than movie streaming

I'll be honest, I don't know what this means, and comparing a service like Spotify to a social network like Lemmy doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

> Centralization is easier for mass appeal

Which is by definition a single point of failure.

As for mass appeal, I'd argue the issue isn't centralization, it's network effects. I.e. I'll use the service people I'm interested in use. If you have a lot of fragmented communities, that becomes a problem, and thus Reddit dominates. And it's the problem federation is specifically intended to solve, by stitching those individual communities into a larger network.

[d0gbread]

I mean to refer to centralization as a spectrum so I don't intend to say centralization means one option.

What I mean by comparing music streaming to movie streaming is that for all intents and purposes you can feel like your Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple, whatever music libraries are pretty comprehensive, whereas that is absolutely not the case with Netflix, Max, etc.