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[–]Kuasocto[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You just don't get it. If they were actually diverse that would truly be good, but nowadays they're nominally different sites, but all with their HQs in Cali, all funded and controlled by the same people. If you actually had an Iranian version of reddit do you honestly think it would behave the same as Cali reddit? How "decentralized" do you want things to be? For every single person to run his own server?

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I meant to say "...is the next best thing to decentralization."

How "decentralized" do you want things to be? For every single person to run his own server?

Yes, that's how P2P decentralization works. It's super easy and doesn't take any skills, just a good software platform. That's pretty much how Mastadon, Scuttlebutt, Hive and tons others work.

[–]Kuasocto[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I meant to say "...is the next best thing to decentralization."

well that changes everything, sorry for my previous comment then.

How "decentralized" do you want things to be? For every single person to run his own server?

Yes, that's how P2P decentralization works. It's super easy and doesn't take any skills, just a good software platform. That's pretty much how Mastadon, Scuttlebutt, Hive and tons others work.

How do they work? Do users just sign up and start posting crap like twitter or are there some extra steps? Because I think you might be overestimating the average normie's pc skills.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Torrenting, IPFS, Session, etc. are P2P-distributed and don't even need a hub. It's all in the app.

Other P2P-decentralized networks connect together, so instead of a single site (Facebook, Reddit, SaidIt, etc.) you would have dozens or hundred or more instance-sites that all share data. ie. Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, NextCloud, Movim, Yacy, Diaspora, etc. It would be much harder to take down a swarm than a single target.