sigon ✅ @sigon@octodon.social

I often have to remind people that they live in a technical bubble.

Do you remember what it was like to not know how computers worked at all? Try to reconnect with that feeling. That's how people spend their entire waking lives. They don't care about any technical details. They want to use their thing. If the thing isn't working, they might be annoyed or angry or sad. But they'll move on with their life. Maybe delete the app and never try again. Complain to someone over a beer about how they thing crashed and it ruined their day.

People throw away perfectly functional (even NEW!) computers because they're running slow due to malware or some other issue.

If you want to save the world from centralized services you need to figure out how to abstract everything away so much that they have no clue they're using a decentralized service.

A cross-platform app that is a container running the software. Automatic DNS/TLS/etc setup. Automatic federation. Automatic syncing to their other devices/computers over some protocol we have not yet invented. Actually DNS/TLS are probably not the right solution for this.

And you better have some way to do automatic backups. Any data loss will not be acceptable. Ever.

Basically what people want does not exist. We don't have the protocols and abstractions. Until then, centralized services will dominate the landscape because they solve all of these problems for the user in a centralized way. And it doesn't cost them a dime.

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