Agreed, and since we are on Lemmy this easily makes me think of the Fediverse. Even something that is born to be decentralized, like the ActivityPub protocol, ends up having trouble scaling up properly because of blurry standards. Ever noticed how shitty federation is with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms? Or most other federated platorms that most people here haven’t even ever heard about?

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And the reason for this is pretty simple too. Decentralization and open standards are hard to build. Centralized systems are easier and more profitable for the developer (it’s nice being the boss and being able to do whatever you please on your platform).

But at the end of the day most people value user experience the highest and that is why, I think, decentralized stuff tends to struggle. So, TL;DR, we don’t need more centralization but we do need for decentralized stuff to be as good as centralized stuff is.

Paging in @zeasided@lemmy.basedcount.com .