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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by ghughes on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:18PM (#14396597)
> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.

Exactly. Diaspora and its ilk miss this point entirely. If users have to set up their own infrastructure or even think about how it works then it's never going to scale.

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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by joshstrange on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:52PM (#14396849)
Even if you personally don't have to setup your own infrastructure, like if you join a friend's instance (which in this case would end up being MY instance) it still sucks. Especially for the friend (ME) who sets it up and maintains and PAYS for it. It means I instantly become tech support or the source of "Josh, Diaspora won't let me post this image...". That's the last thing I want to do in my free time.
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