Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3)

pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why is there a “Top Provider Content Share” metric if its gonna score the same as the “Top Provider User Share” every time ?

  As said in the footer, this is a work in progress, I’m posting it to get input and still refining sources

  Why is the Top Provider Content Share not higher than the user share ? For instance, emails usually have at least one sender and one recipient, making it twice as likely that at least one of them is using gmail. If an email has 10 recipients across 10 different providers, each provider has a copy of the data

  I’d love to get better data on this, I’ve looked but not yet found better data than what I included in the source

  Why is ease of hosting a mail server rated so well ? How is “leveraging email hosting services” decentralized in any way ?

  Here I’m a bit in two minds, sure it’s difficult to SELF host email, but in practice it isn’t because there are hundreds (Thousands?) of hosting options to choose from where you can choose your own domain etc. for the low price of basically-free

  Why are we using a random repo created a few hours ago by a random github user as a reference ?

  It’s my repo, it’s to keep track of the versions and so that others can copy, edit and share it if they like.

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  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Here I’m a bit in two minds, sure it’s difficult to SELF host email, but in practice it isn’t because there are hundreds (Thousands?) of hosting options to choose from where you can choose your own domain etc. for the low price of basically-free

    I would prefer to limit this to actually hosting it on a machine you control. We don’t consider redirecting a custom domain to a subreddit “self-hosting”, do we? Yes, there are many email providers out there but that’s more like existing lemmy or mastodon instances and not like hosting your own where you have full control over your data.

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    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I would argue that is two different issues

      “Are you free to easily move around and control your data” = High decentralization score

      “do you have full control over your data?” = A different question

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• dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why are we using a random repo created a few hours ago by a random github user as a reference ?

  They aren’t. That’s the repo that has the latest version of the survey. The actual references are one section up.

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