blaineAnyone that tells you that federated social networks will be chaos compared to Twitter/Facebook would be happy for the United States or Russia to just take over governing the whole world because the administration would be simpler and more efficient.
Jan 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦@blaine Yeah, I can't quite understand where they're coming from. Other federated systems work just fine (like email), yet people act like they've never seen or used one before.
Mike Taylor 🦕@jan It's very much like the kind of Learned Helplessness that makes some (not all) older people refuse to learn how to use even very simple tech. But it seems to have spread down the age-range.
@mike Indeed -- it doesn't help that so many tech companies want to treat the people using their products like infants. Rather than get offended, some people just seem to accept that. I'm hoping this event will help widen peoples' comfort zones and lead to them understanding more, not less.
@jan
"Hey, you should try out the Web, you'll love it."
"But it's so confusing. There are all these different web sites. How should I choose which one to use?"
"Oh. well, it's a federated system. You can start anywhere, and just folllow links till you arrive somewhere you like."
"No thanks, Poindexter!"
"Hey, you should try out the Web, you'll love it."
"But it's so confusing. There are all these different web sites. How should I choose which one to use?"
"Oh. well, it's a federated system. You can start anywhere, and just folllow links till you arrive somewhere you like."
"No thanks, Poindexter!"