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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by hnbad on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:33AM (#35094126)
This assumes you (or rather: those users) want all of those billions of users to be directly interconnected.

Most people on Mastodon seem to be perfectly fine with living in a microcosm compared to Twitter.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:30PM (#35103455)
Humans demand connectedness. There's something to be said for participating in seven independent communities with seven independent accounts, but when you see something from Community A and want to share it with Community B, a system that doesn't allow either account to make that connection is going to frustrate people, and get outcompeted at the system level by something that does.
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