Having a second massively centralized copy of the big index, that costs tens of millions of dollars to run, is not decentralization.
Duh.
It can't be decentralized because it costs millions of dollars to run a node.
No one will explain to me what is wrong with improving the UI, web-wide integration and support for the fedi instead where we already have a rather large talented, interesting (and good looking!) group of users being very social 24/7 ... what does this do that we don't already have? The only thing I can think of are "big names" and that can matter. But, why not just improve the big project everyone is already doing?
@futurebird it's not about wrong, but about a different approach.
Fediverse isn't so much decentralized as it's REcentralized around instances, and that can be seen as problematic. We see every day users complaining about butting heads with instance owners who are empowered by this architecture.
Tweaks to the UI can't change that.
Other platforms didn't go that direction and are more decentralized, putting more power in the hands of the end users.
Free Our Feeds seems to be really focused on getting away from centralization, so the centralization around instances wouldn't be the approach they'd want to follow.
