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Re:Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network by bausshf on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:24AM (#16764128)
Another thing is that this will only appeal to people who are generally tech-minded and not the average joe who uses social media.

Most people who uses social media etc. doesn't want to download a lot of things, access should be fairly easy and painless without some sort of "guide", which is what I can see as the downfall for this "social network"

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Re:Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network by chrstphrknwtn on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:42AM (#16764301)
It's more to do with convenience. It was more convenient (and cheaper) to just get Napster / Limewire / Soul Seek / other p2p sharing app and download music than buy it online. In the beginning it was a tech-minded group, but the software got better and easier... and the communities grew.

In short order it was not only tech-minded people who did this en-masse. If a platform is convenient for people to do X, it has a good change of also being popular.

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Re:Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network by bovermyer on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:29AM (#16764166)
When I nuked my Facebook account I didn't bother finding a replacement.

The harder problem (for me) to solve is how to build up weak ties outside of social media.

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