Hello,
There are loads of people who dislike centralised services, like facebook, twitter, dropbox and so on, yet still no one seems to be very curious about decentralised systems. How come?
Lemmy scratches the surface with lots of centralised servers, but pushing it, everyone could have their own soft that, for example, is their “user”. A user having “facebook”/twitter/dropbox/sharing capabilities. Still no one seems to even pursue those kind of ideas. Even in theory.
Is it because the dopamine triggering algorithm wins everyone over? The fear of using a soft that communicated on an open port on your device? Or what might it be? But that doesn’t make sense to me, because people don’t even discuss it. Or am I not invited to those discussions 😁?
It should be trivial to spin up a sharing system, for example (harboring laws would protect you), or some “friends, and friends friends only” network a la facebook in tje early days.
It’s not limited by technology, and people are smart and curious.
So where are they?
Edit: I know that even if the service existed, most people wouldn’t use it and prefer Facebook et al. But that absolutely nobody has spun up one is what baffles me. Thousands work on the Linux kernel, where are the hardcore network nerds?
Yes, but there are people running lemmy servers and so on, but nobody seems to try a completely decentralised local approach.
I’m not fishing for “why isn’t everyone doing it”, but why is nobody doing it.
Even back in the day when security was not cared about, nobody thought “what if my pc was also my ‘homepage’?” or such.
People are doing it, its just takes more then one person to manage the complexity of running a several different fediverse platforms at once.
A higher barrier to entry means less will do it.
I disagree here, if decentralised you’d not need heavy server management etc. It also would have to be done once only (and not obligatory some hashup of fediverse servers) before people can jumpstart different types of softs on top of it.