Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. Working on Fediverse standards: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps

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  • @AnonomousWolf @fediverse

    Looks reasonable overall, but I don’t understand some of your assessments.

    >Easy (Leverage email hosting services)

    What are those email hosting services? If hosting and maintenance are delegated to 3rd parties, that doesn’t count towards decentralization.

    >Top Provider User Share: Reddit ≈ 48.4%

    Why this is not 100%?

    >Very Easy: One-command Docker,

    I think the easiest option is distro’s default package manager – docker is additional layer of complexity. Also some services are nearly impossible to self-host without docker, and points should be subtracted if that is the case.





  • @5dh @fediverse Financial incentive is not the only possible cause. If project leaders stop listening to their users for some other reason, you’ll get the same result.
    And there is another, more subtle problem: protocol bloat. Fediverse services are getting more and more complicated, and the cost of creating a new platform is constantly increasing. If this problem is not addressed, at some point Fediverse will start looking like a web browser market, where new players can’t compete due to an immense implementation complexity.