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Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
Centralized/walled services brainwashing is the way of Whatsapp and other swindlers who exploit simple laziness of registering. It's nothing to do with inability to grasp the decentralization concept by common users.
You can state that till you're blue in the face but I haven't figured out anything to do with diaspora* other than . . . well, actually I can't think of an example. I think I'm a geek, but I'm not the target audience. And I certainly can't think of anyone I might know using it. Sure, the social networking providers like facebook, etc., are essentially selling the customers, but "laziness" isn't the term to use for users. it's just a common geek pejorative to describe the "normals" who just want to do something online, not actually build the internet. There is nothing wrong with that desire. I have a car, I don't want to build a car. Blaming the user for "laziness" is just an excuse for the unpopularity of a technology or whatever that's not usable for any but the hardcore geek.
 

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