See my reply above.

uBlock Origin blocks all ads from the streaming sites I use. YouTube, Peacock, Paramount+ and Hulu. Some movies and sports I can easily pirate with no ads.

Yes

Yes.

I gave up traditional TV for ad-free streaming back in 2009 and have never looked back.

Phone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)

Yes. Those are good points.

You were going for some Socratic roundabout ironic thing?

No.

That feels a bit patronizing.

That was not my intent. I apologize if anyone felt this way.

Why is that?

There! That’s much better! I agree and well done.

Initial meetings and other communications like where to meet in person, etc.

I don’t believe you read the article nor gave this any thought before you made your flippant comment. Also, you give no reasoning for your dogmatic statements.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2yvgd

Also, see if you can install Bypass Paywalls Clean.

Right? Use Firefox or a derivative (ex. LibreWolf). Ladybird will be coming out in the future so that may be a viable option.

RIP Alex

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

Also, it isn’t ‘decentralization’ in the strictest technical sense. That’s what the Decentralization Scoring System is trying to show.

It’s meant to explain what decentralization is and is not. That’s all.

Please look at the big picture here. The Fediverse exists only because of a very niche user base that are technologically exposed to it.

The general public HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE that the Fediverse exists.

Therefore, it would take either an enormous amount of incredibly generous people to market/advertise the Fediverse OR a fuck-ton of money to pay people to market/advertise the Fediverse.

more people need to self-host, or at the very least we need more mon-and-pop style datacenters.

most would rather offload hardware costs and, more importantly, security, to those more knowledgeable.

running one’s own hardware is extremely time intensive, nevermind power and equipment costs

These three points that you’ve made are NOT accurate. I could go into great detail as to why this is but I won’t waste our time nor embarrass you.

The problem, unfortunately, always comes down to money.

This isn’t a technological problem.

All of the popular widely used corporate platforms gain more users because they have the money in which to market/advertise themselves.