Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work

Re:Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work by always_good on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:36PM (#15251760)

I'll have to pop your analogy bubble and ask the question again: How are you going to convince people that the decentralization of a platform they use to get laid and keep up with friends/family is going to have a meaningful impact on their lives? And how are you going to do it to the point where you can cause an exodus large enough to cause any real change?

You're going to have to do better than draw some analogies to monarchies on Hacker News. And things like "but they sell your data!" has had no impact beyond desensitizing everyone with Chicken Little'ism.

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Re:Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:03AM (#15256382)

I don't know, nor did I claim to know? Though in the end it will have to boil down to "because no dictatorship", just probably packaged in a way people understand what that means. Potentially we'll have to live through it before people do understand, though, just as we have with monarchies and dictatorships.

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