(#35kn2ia) @prologic@twtxt.net

People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

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On the face of it it’s a generalisation, but s/People/99.99% of people/ and the statement becomes objectively true.
My opinion on decentralised communications protocols is basically: Being able to run your own instance - easily - is very, very important. But being required to run your own instance dooms the system to failure / being very niche at best. Mastodon is a great example which fails at both; it’s hard to self-host and there’s no obvious canonical instance to sign up to if you don’t want to host your own.