How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
Should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants this to succeed. I hope we don’t make the same mistakes as doomed so many other open source open protocol projects in the past.
They will likely offer the one thing we are missing here-
Ease of use, for normal people. Ie, your grandma using her facebook app, can interact with you via the fediverse.
That being said- most of us will know, the temporary boost to the fediverse will not be worth the long-term consequences. But- to your average user, they will love this idea.
So- only time will tell. Although, Mastodon has quite a following and has been holding steady so far.
Should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants this to succeed. I hope we don’t make the same mistakes as doomed so many other open source open protocol projects in the past.
The solution is to simply ignore the corpos
I envision- its not that simple.
They will likely offer the one thing we are missing here-
Ease of use, for normal people. Ie, your grandma using her facebook app, can interact with you via the fediverse.
That being said- most of us will know, the temporary boost to the fediverse will not be worth the long-term consequences. But- to your average user, they will love this idea.
So- only time will tell. Although, Mastodon has quite a following and has been holding steady so far.
It doesn’t matter what they offer, whatever it is or however nice, it’s a trojan horse.
It is not in our or the fediverse’s interest to cede any form of control to these corporations who have a monetary interest in ensuring our failure