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2023

A new onboarding experience on Mastodon. Reassuring to see this commitment to resolving some of the biggest pain points preventing people from adopting Mastodon, especially given it has meaningful competition as a federated social network in the form of Bluesky now.

# 1st May 2023, 5:44 pm / decentralisation, mastodon

2019

[On 5G] This is the great thing about the decentralized, permissionless innovation of the internet - telcos don’t need to decide in advance what the use cases are, any more than Intel had to decide what the use cases for faster CPUs would be.

Benedict Evans

# 18th January 2019, 6:55 am / decentralisation, internet, benedict-evans

2010

While I don’t expect Twitter to master its own destiny as far as the decentralization of the medium goes, I do support the idea, and I hope that Twitter as a business can coexist with the need for the world to have a free, open, reliable, and verifiable way for humans to instantly communicate in a one-to-many fashion.

Alex Payne

# 16th September 2010, 11:07 am / alex-payne, decentralisation, twitter, recovered

2008

If we want people to have the same degree of user autonomy as we've come to expect from the world, we may have to sit down and code alternatives to Google Docs, Twitter, and EC2 that can live with us on the edge, not be run by third parties.

Danny O'Brien

# 20th July 2008, 9 am / danny-obrien, decentralisation, ec2, google-docs, twitter