> It works until it doesn’t: when the host of a centralized community decides to make enemies with its users.
And yet in spite of this very thing happening, Lemmy and Mastodon remain largely unadopted.
Diaspora* existed during the Digg implosion and where did people flock to? No, not the decentralized Fediverse, but to another centralized service. Because it meets their needs. Their needs from a product _aren't_ that it be decentralized. Their needs are that it is easily accessible, that information is easily indexed and searchable, that interacting with users is obvious and transparent, etc.
These are all needs that Fediverse products have not met well because they're too focused on their agenda and their ideology, not their product.
And yet in spite of this very thing happening, Lemmy and Mastodon remain largely unadopted.
Diaspora* existed during the Digg implosion and where did people flock to? No, not the decentralized Fediverse, but to another centralized service. Because it meets their needs. Their needs from a product _aren't_ that it be decentralized. Their needs are that it is easily accessible, that information is easily indexed and searchable, that interacting with users is obvious and transparent, etc.
These are all needs that Fediverse products have not met well because they're too focused on their agenda and their ideology, not their product.