Decentralized social media, and the fragmentation of control

Re:Decentralized social media, and the fragmentation of control by lucideer on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:37PM (#15916881)

Your first point on Twitter's appeal is valid, but I don't think this is necessarily restricted to centralised systems. Discoverability is something decentralised networks struggle with - look at the role the very centralised (albeit endlessly mirrored) pirate bay plays, despite efforts like btdigg - but I think it's very solvable. Somehow. With some effort and ingenuity.

On your second point, the IRC comparison makes sense, but Slack and Reddit are locked in ecosystems. Don't see how they compare.

Mastodon is basically IRC with Twitter's format.

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Re:Decentralized social media, and the fragmentation of control by s73ver_ on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:00PM (#15918068)

Saying that Slack and Reddit don't compare because they're "locked in" really misses the point that most users don't care about that.

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Re:Decentralized social media, and the fragmentation of control by lucideer on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:21PM (#15918661)

Users care about lock-in. The fact they may not seem to care at the adoption point is more a case of lock-in, by design, being relatively opaque for most users, but they care when restrictions become apparent. Of course the nature of lock-in is that that's too late.

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