[utilize1808]

What if your neighbors decided it's just easier to socialize in a centralized club and go there all the time?

Gradually, you "lose" neighbors to socialize with because people (and things in general) gravitate towards the path of least effort. Eventually you will have to go to the club too.

Centralization can be contagious.

[bee_rider]

This is something we lived through already, right? Centralized social media platforms are largely dominated by annoying people nowadays. The article is about a group that decided “hey, the club sucks, let’s make our own,” and they seem to be doing alright.

[utilize1808]

If they make it really right, then eventually the annoying people will come too and we are back to square one.

[pjc50]

Not if you ban them, which is the missing ingredient.

[utilize1808]

I am afraid you might have seriously underestimated the number of annoying people around you.

[pjc50]

I think people are missing that there's a middle ground between "fully decentralized" (everyone in their own home) and "fully centralized" (entire population of the earth goes to one spot to converse, like the Hajj a hundred times larger.

[DrewADesign]

Bluesky connects these things though, right? Isn’t that the point of the article? But even if someone was deliberately segregating them: if I don’t want to go to the club, but my neighbor wants to go to the club more than they want to hang out with me, then I don’t get to hang out with my neighbor. That’s life.