> You can use any email provider and interact with any other email provider effortlessly. This is undeniably an improvement over internal direct messages within a centralized service
But the general public went for siloed systems instead.
So I’d say you or me want decentralization, but I don’t think that holds true in general.
True, but it's way easier to add centralization to a system that is decentralized by nature than it is to somehow decentralize something that is centralized by nature.
> But the general public went for siloed systems instead.
And yet some former Twitter users have identified why this is a problem, and are now moving back towards a decentralized platform. It's why scaling Mastadon is even a topic right now.
From me as well.
> You can use any email provider and interact with any other email provider effortlessly. This is undeniably an improvement over internal direct messages within a centralized service
But the general public went for siloed systems instead.
So I’d say you or me want decentralization, but I don’t think that holds true in general.