Somebody gave me this link earlier as to why they don't like the Fediverse, from the perspective of an user
Somebody gave me this link earlier as to why they don't like the Fediverse, from the perspective of an user
i realize this might be swinging at the hornet's nest, but i have a genuine question about the Fediverse
something that sort of confuses me about the fediverse, conceptually, is the idea that these disparate apps are cross-compatible in some way. like obvs there's mastodon-compatible platforms (pleroma, ...

The core phrase of the blog post: "no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions".
Feels to me that it's all growing pains, we WOULD benefit for a federated auth system instead of an account on every service, and we need lots of bug fixing, i just wish all these social media shitstorms had happened a couple years later and not at this point...