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Re:The Future Is Decentralized by rtkwe on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:43PM (#24545504)
There needs to be a bigger benefit to the end users before decentralized services catch on. Widespread hard censorship of company run services might be just the kind of thing that decentralization needs to stop being a niche thing for people willing to put up with a diminished experience for the nebulous benefit of controlling your data and experience. Vanishingly few people want to deal with running their own services so the annoyances of not having control over what exactly happens on $socialMediumPlatform is smaller than the hassle of trying to move to mastodon then having no one to follow.
Re:The Future Is Decentralized by anonzzz on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:20PM (#24547998)
We need Justin Bieber to use mastadon.
Re:The Future Is Decentralized by rtkwe on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:18PM (#24548597)
Is he even that hot of a celebrity any more? I was not in that demographic at all but he seems to have fallen into the weird void of the 'formerly super famous' to me.

Either way it's an old strategy for businesses, pay or convince a celebrity to use your platform to bring their fans along. You want a wider span of 'influencers' though for sure because you don't want Mastodon to become the place with all the Beiber fans.