Can't wait to have other people say what I can or cannot see. /s
Check out Planetary.social or Manyverse, both using same protocol that uses no points of failure, no servers required. Tech is there but we still living the "everyone can host a forum" times like it's something new. This model is outdated and we should be aiming for something better.
I think that people would be rooting for freedom but here we are having this conversation. My account at Lemmy has years, I'm one of those that has no such frictions and tested Lemmy long time ago when was said that it was the return of Jesus. I agree people will be kind of stuck at Lemmy, for a brief moment, just until some trend shows up and there they go again, that's why they are here in the first place. I bet 99% of this influx will go back to Reddit like many of those that are back at Twitter. Most people couldn't care less what's happening at Reddit, Twitter or anywhere else. They will just get used to the official app and be done with it. Btw, care to explain why people would stay at Lemmy over Reddit? You mention friction, what else?
They will choose another instance? Or move on to something better and won't make the same mistake. The system as you call it is distributed but all those servers are points of centralization. Then you have P2P that is fully decentralized and has no servers.
Compare that with the 5 seconds it takes to install Manyverse or Planetary.Social on a smartphone and be done with it. Running docker containers is trivial for you and me but it isn't for most people. Also a public instance has to follow the law, soon will have to scan messages and content, follow privacy regulations, have proper backups and security, risk suffer hacks, risk have user data leaked, etc. This isn't a playground. All that trouble for what? Why not decentralize everything? This model is outdated and people should just avoid it, starting with the devs.
Pay for hosting or not there's not much difference, it should be better than this.
I selfhost many things. But makes no sense to selfhost a full insurance just for one user. Also is not as easy as installing an application. You likely have to provide a domain, SSL certs, open ports, deal with security and we are not in 2010 anymore. That form of communications is outdated.
I think owning our accounts would be actually good and saving a key pair is as simple as saving a password. Also, the server wouldn't be going down because there would be no servers.
It would be a better situation than hosting our content on someone else computer.
Nowadays doesn't even make any sense to use servers. Everyone already have decent computers and/or smartphones able to host their own content (text) and their friends content. Doesn't require much. Why not create something better? We already have decentralized finance but we still using centralized social networks. How's this possible?!
Really? There's what.. dozens of thousands of accounts on the main server alone? That's centralization. Decentralization is when there's no servers and you own your data. For example, Manyverse using SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) protocol, is trully decentralized, has a thing called Pubs but it's optional. Also works offline, via WiFi, etc.
Tbh nothing guarantees that the same doesn't happen in Lemmy. As long as you have some form of centralization that might always happen, even if the owner says it won't. There's truly decentralized options and everyone should be jumping to that, not another version of the same issue like Lemmy or Mastodon.
Any tech has its ups and downs. My first comment said in other words, the user and it's followers would host the content. Also having a cell plan is already a problem for many people but with SSB you can update your feed while online, see and comment offline, then upload those comments and your new posts when you finally go online again. Can you do that with Lemmy, Reddit... nope.
Sure, one has servers = centralized, the other doesn't have servers = decentralized.
You're saying that p2p is another type of centralization? Care to explain?
Would be really cool if Lemmy would be truly decentralized. I mean each user and it's followers hosted the user content. And don't come with the it's not possible or let me tell you why wouldn't work because that's exactly what happens in Scuttlebutt protocol. When will people learn. Centralization, small or big is aways a problem. We all have all it takes to make it happen, smartphones, laptops, desktops, servers.. everyone's at least one of these. So why still this mess with social platforms?!