Recently, I’ve been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.
Recently, I’ve been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.
Please look at the big picture here. The Fediverse exists only because of a very niche user base that are technologically exposed to it.
The general public HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that the Fediverse exists.
Therefore, it would take either an enormous amount of incredibly generous people to market/advertise the Fediverse OR a fuck-ton of money to pay people to market/advertise the Fediverse.
Apologies for butting in here, but this brings up an IMHO very important point:
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.
Your audacity to announce unbeknownst to you how many of those instances OFFLOAD TO CDNs is outstanding.
You have yet to rescind your ignorance.
I await an apology.
Yes, promotion and awareness of a service is necessary for its continuation. I’ve agreed with that. But again, without the technological resources and money, there is no service to promote and nothing to continue because it hadn’t even started.