most people won’t want to bother learning what an instance is or what federation means.
What have you seen that convinced you of this? Has this been studied?
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days agoI haven’t used Mastodon, but if it’s anything like Lemmy, most people won’t want to bother learning what an instance is or what federation means.
FOSS enthusiasts regularly overestimate how much hassle regular people are willing to put up with to do something, and how much they care about corporations.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
deathbird@mander.xyz 5 days ago
To me the biggest issue with federated platforms is defederation: deliberately breaking interoperability.
Like, imagine if email servers (the original federated network) blocked whole domains as aggressively Mastodon or even Lemmy servers do? It never would have worked.