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The "Tech News Today" discussion of Ello was vacuous. One commentator referred to Identi.ca and Diaspora as "failed." But that presupposes that "success" means "dominance." In the federated social network universe, "success" means "is used by people to communicate in a a self-sustaining and non-centralized way." Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter have succeeded. They facilitate learning and communication and discovery. People meet new people and maintain friendships. I am sorry that most people don't use the federated networks, and instead choose the monolithic social networks.
- kat, @mcscx@quitter.se and Christian F and 2 others like this.
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I added a bit more to my original post: "Saying that alternative social networks have failed, when compared to Facebook, is like arguing that Portuguese has failed as a language compared to English (or Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic) simply because it's not one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations. Pretty sure José Saramago (to cherry-pick) would argue Portuguese was a very successful language - it won him the Nobel Prize and through it he created incredible written works expressing the human condition."
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Heteroginity within the the platform and amongst the platforms ( aka federation and software diversity ) is too nuanced
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People can handle nuance. We should give people credit. They just need to understand why it isn't a drawback. That is harder to do, and the burden of that job lies on the people evangelizing federation. (us)
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I agree. I think I meant federation and diversity is too nuanced for tech news reporters looking for "Facebook killers"
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Ah, OK. I misunderstood for whom the nuance was too great. :-) Certainly, media have a far worse track record of attention span than individual people...