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Somebody gave me this link earlier as to why they don't like the Fediverse, from the perspective of an user (cohost.org)
submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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The core phrase of the blog post: "no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions".

Feels to me that it's all growing pains, we WOULD benefit for a federated auth system instead of an account on every service, and we need lots of bug fixing, i just wish all these social media shitstorms had happened a couple years later and not at this point...

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

My simple answer: A centralized body controlling the nature of all traffic on its platform has the power to unilaterally make decisions which benefit the body itself regardless of the needs or desires of the individuals participating on that platform. If there is no centralized body, this is not possible. Because of the multitude of instances and the ability to form barriers between them at will, each community has unprecedented ability to be the platform its users desire it to be.