So I really enjoy this site but the decentralization true believer guys very much need to develop some chill, lol.
We all need to take a breath and remember that change takes time.
Decentralized services are great, but services need to be accessible and intuitive for popular adoption to take off.
If we want people to move away from centralized platforms (and we should), the way we do that isn't preaching the technical superiority and expecting that to win hearts and minds.
Folks on social media aren't looking for the best tech, they're looking for tech that helps them access community with a minimum of friction.
@gwensnyder so few people deep in tech seem to realize that the tech itself is almost never the interesting part for the vast majority of users.
It's unfortunate to see smart people get so frustrated by it, but people-at-large simply don't care, they just want an easy solution to their immediate need.
"Poor" tech can do that just fine for a lot of things.
@StabbyCutyou @gwensnyder I almost didn't migrate to Mastodon because of how confusing the server picking process was. When they closed registrations for mastodon social, I almost gave up until I remembered I had an old account.
I have a few friends who tried to sign up here but fell off the signup process.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
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