This reminds me of Tom Scott's excellent video on electronic voting machines, where he mentioned that the system for counting votes needs to be easily understandable to the average person so that they can adequately trust it.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Okay I watched the few seconds of video at the end of a three-hour long video apparently about Facebook where he mentions "federated social media using open decentralized technologies such as activitypub" as it is known. The ratio of time and effort he's inclined to devote to each topic speaks for itself. My understanding of what he says: "Sounds complicated. I'm not touching it until all my friends are already there."

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

He's more than capable of joining the fediverse, but he's also a UI/UX designer. I would say his main issue with the fediverse is the amount of friction between a normie being exposed to the concept and actually signing up and engaging with it.

You have to admit that it isn't the simplest thing to do. People have to understand the concept of the fediverse, find an instance that will accept them, sign up (with confirmation required from the instance mods) and then find out how to find communities that they are interested in.

It's not about whether a tech-savvy person can figure it out with some effort, it's about whether normal people can transition away from a monolithic, streamlined, social media to it.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People have to understand the concept of the fediverse

That's the argument. Do they, though? I sure didn't when I first signed up.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Most of the people didn't, and that's okay

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