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   The Doctor (drwho@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 01:32:43 JST The Doctor

   Just realized something:

   I wonder how many of the "Decentralization won't work unless it's blockchain" folks are too young to have used BitTorrent.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 04:40:27 JST feld

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     Decentralization without nomadic identities in the year of our lord and savior Jesus Christ 2023 🙏 is a huge problem that will prevent it from being adopted as the internet's lowest common denominator for social interaction by a billion+ internet users
     
     Decentralization does work, and the fediverse may last 50+ years, but the userbase will probably not even reach 100M people which is a damn shame
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 04:47:35 JST feld

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     • feld
     Pulling some stats:
     
     > The latest data reveal that more than two-thirds of the world's total population now uses a mobile phone, with the number of “unique” mobile users reaching 5.48 billion in April 2023.
     
     > In 2020, the number of global e-mail users amounted to four billion and is set to grow to 4.6 billion users in 2025.
     
     You can reach almost everyone on the planet with a phone number. Possibly more than by physical mail!
     
     email is basically the next best option.
     
     The fediverse will never displace either of these. Not even close. And that's a damn shame because the goal for the fediverse should be to get everyone on the planet connected through this medium to officially kill the proprietary social platforms