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Honestly.

what the fuck is this response?

I hear always that centralising everything is great because efficiencies of scale: but then we have something that works as good or better and the response is; “ah yeah, but the load is so high!”

Why do I care? I don't honestly give a shit about how much load you have, you could be factoring Pi on every page load; it means -nothing- to me. I kindly invite you to give more of a shit about user experience.

This also goes for when “complicated” systems fail, maybe making them so complicated and centralised is not the way.

>>dijit+(OP)
I've been arguing with Twitter emigres who seem to think that the UX on masto sucks.

I would say that Twitter is an automatic transmission, mastodon is a standard.

>>dijit+(OP)
Mastodon isn't truly decentralized. Every instance is its own feifdom and you have to communicate directly with them to exchange messages. This is unlike how Usenet, FidoNet, and SMTP work. They are truly decentralized as you can exchange data without directly accessing a peer's host server.

>>kevin_+I1
I genuinely don't understand what you mean here. I don't directly access any peer's server when I want to talk to them.

>>kevin_+I1
How do plan to send me an email without talking to my mail server?

>>dijit+(OP)
I couldn't see a few threads on Mastadon a few weeks ago, the post was up for 24 hours, and the perceived outage never dropped through that entire period, and probably longer after I stopped caring about the post. There were numerous people on HN experiencing the same.