"It’s compelling to look at the non-hosting users, conclude that they are a smashing majority (99.8% !!!!), and make a sweeping conclusion that no one wants to host their own servers. Yet it’s precisely because of those 0.2% that the system is capable of existing. Take them away, and the whole system dies."
Great post. The tiny minority of people running the network are a key constituency. They need good #UX too.
https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html
#decentralization #fediverse #moxie #SmallWeb #indieweb
Great post. The tiny minority of people running the network are a key constituency. They need good #UX too.
https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html
#decentralization #fediverse #moxie #SmallWeb #indieweb
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Also while I'm torn on whether to set up Matrix or Jabber for a personal chat server, someone I know actually opted it for the stable and dependables Jabber, and hosts it in Raspberry PI.
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Olivier Forget
•It's a big reason why people end up with big-social-site.com/@my-username: because it's free.
We should ask ourselves how this can be addressed (heh). How important is it to have a globally unique human-readable name online? Pretty much none of us have unique given name + family name, yet we manage fine.
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James Harris
•In this post, @teleclimber coins the term "Hosting Experience" (HX) and talks about what it would look like to improve that. He's working on https://dropserver.org, an attempt to make a personal server with good HX.
Olivier Forget
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