Wouldn't buy a GMC but Chevy is ok? The money goes in the same pocket buddy, they're the same cars with different badges!

The Prologue and Equinox are a joint venture between Honda and Chevrolet!

As a Canadian I would never buy a GM product because of the shit they pulled after 2008.

They're suing in French court.

Well, in a system like I'm talking about, adding your server and storage space in the mix would make the whole thing more reliable and add to the storage capacity so more content can be hosted/backed up, just like paying for a second server to host a website allows to store more stuff and to start creating backups. You would still help build the community (the website), you just wouldn't have an administrative role outside of the communities you would want to moderate.

Same for all free games they give, it's up to the user to give the publisher their email

Boowoo, shut up if it's all you have to share, no one cares

You're mixing up your problem with Twitter and normal humans' problem with Twitter, get out of your echo chamber a bit, it might help.

You guys should have voted against that if that's not what you wanted.

Well, that's to bad for the US now, isn't it? Maybe they could adopt a national ID that makes sense while they're at it.

What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

What is the incentive for people to share files via peer to peer networks?

What is the incentive for people to host Minecraft servers?

Need me to go on?

If in your mind the only incentive that people have to host instances is to have power over it and its users then they're exactly the kind of people you don't want to see hosting instances.

Or you make it like a traditional website with an API used by people making frontends, but the backend (the database) is decentralized, just like regular websites but instead of having a bunch of servers owned by AWS it's just a bunch of people providing storage space on their servers.

Man, it feels like you guys haven't spoken to a real human in decades...

BlueSky users: Guess I'll just come back later

The end

Stop believing that it will convince people to switch to the less user friendly alternative. You want users on your service? You make it as easy to use as possible. No instances bullshit, one page to sign up and access it from a browser,, multiple apps to access it using the same credentials.

The. Same. As. Centralized. Websites.

Make the experience the same as a centralized service, decentralize the backend as much as you want, users don't give a fuck about that.

Man, people really do love their fireworks... Noise, light and pollution, Yay!

I wonder how many of you guys complain about cars for the same reasons...

Stress can cause vomiting, hell it can cause it in humans!

Split the non Republican vote so you leave the door wide open for them? That's the problem with first past the post...

Except for backup purposes, why do you think I'm talking about everyone hosting everything? Hell, I hope you realize that the way Lemmy works now, instances are just copying other instances content and the issue you're talking about is a reality that could be circumvented by the solution I'm proposing?

You realize that's already how websites work, the content is spread over tens or hundreds of servers, they're just all owned by the same company.

What I mean by "get rid of" is that server admins need to use tools to clean up illegal content from their servers. Lemmy admins are doing that, right now, if they don't want to end up with CSAM on their server, even if they host an instance that doesn't allow NSFW content. Without using tools to clean up their server, NSFW content will end up on it.

The only way what I'm saying doesn't make sense is if you don't understand what I'm talking about.

Look at Reddit before the API bullshit. Tons of apps all having access to the same content, the apps devs didn't have control over what subreddit you had access to, they only have control over the UI used to access it and you could switch from one app to another, always using the same credentials because the frontend was independent from the backend.

Now imagine if the backend, the data storage (Reddit's servers), were decentralized. People would just pool resources to store the content and would have control over what they decide to store on their servers but wouldn't be able to influence the user experience because users would just be pulling content from all the servers.

So you could add 10TB of storage and not accept NSFW content, you would run filter tools to get rid of what might pass through the cracks (just like admins need to do now even on NSFW content free instances), but that would be it, your storage space would just be 10TB out of thousands of TB of database hosted on a ton of servers, open to the public.

Dumb backend, smart frontend. Users curate their experiences themselves (just like on Reddit) and are guaranteed to have access to all the federated content no matter which frontend they use because admins are taken out of the equation. Mods still exist, but they only have power over their communities, they are the people with the most power from a user perspective. There's no more instances, just one huge decentralized database accessible via a bunch of websites and apps and users would choose the one which offers them the UI/UX they prefer.

And if you want to fuck with conspiracy wackos you add "So I would just refer to experts on the subject if I wanted to learn about it."

Take a field where people are in competition with one another and where people's physique are one of the main things they get judged on and is it really a surprise that empowering other people isn't a priority to the members of that community?