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I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Recently, I've been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.

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[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apologies for butting in here, but this brings up an IMHO very important point:

The general public HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that the Fediverse exists.

If I may be so bold as to add: ...and they like it that way.

When it comes to online stuff, most people are lazy, very very ignorant and anywhere inbetween politely indifferent and openly hostile towards any attempt to educate them. They want to look at cat videos and pr0n, collect likes for their food pics and chat with their grandkids. The technology behind all that is a nuisance, not a tool.
By and large, I think those people can't be helped, because they're happy with the status quo. If anything, you're the enemy for wanting to take away their beloved Tiktok and WhatsApp.

That means our largest efforts - self-hosting, the Fediverse, ... will probably always be a bit of a parallel universe to the Internet at large.
This is sad for humanity in general, but it makes enshittification of those services both technically more difficult and (due to its small size and enshittification-resistant populace) less commercially viable.
And small doesn't equal insignificant.

So what I'm saying is, we shouldn't see the Fediverse etc. as a replacement for everything, but as a safe space for refugees. And that's what it excels at.