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I had a guy come in at work today with a ton of questions about how decentralizing networks functions and he couldn't wrap his head around it. I attempted to inform him about this very same distinction; the difference between something like Twitter and IRC and his head just exploded before my eyes

He could install piholes, use wireguard, dive through Ubiquiti equipment until the conversation died but when it came to shedding the skin of the social network he was utterly perplexed as to why someone would even bother. There was this fascination with the idea that since some data to some degree has been scraped by the federal government that there was no point in divesting oneself of the tools afforded to us, and I was just amazed by the hubris

I couldn't get through to him even if I tried