this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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There's concept and there's execution.
Gotta have both.
I'm not wasting time on, or making any commitment to, a flawed execution, no matter how much I might appreciate the concept.
And for that matter, while I know this isn't a receptive audience to the idea, decentralization isn't the be-all-end-all concern for a platform like this. Idealistically it's nice, sure. But for me (and I'd wager most), it's not even in my top 5 concerns when deciding how (or if) I spend my time on social media.
For me, it has to be relevant, informative, fresh, and well-delivered. If that means trading some of my personal data to their collectors, I'm fine with that. Lord knows everyone else is gathering it too. In the case of Lemmy, the benefits don't matter if it's not delivering on my main needs of it.
There are lot of people working for free to make it work by trying to improve it. It is easy to complain from the confort of my chair at home. And so society becomes more cursed each day.