That’s a very simplified version of it that just ignores the premise though. The cloud does a lot of things that locally-hosted software and content does not, and not all of it is simply by nature of being on another PC
Hence why the article seems to suggest advancing P2P for more uses, which is another way to visit another computer, but has many differences from visiting “The Cloud”
Is this the same report that was brought up where it was found out Twitter has the exact same issue?
Based on all the comments though, the reason seems to be baked into Mastodon’s design
It seems to be a clash of what two groups of users want since a few seem to be happy with how Mastodon does it.
This seemed obvious the moment they said 10m accounts on launch. People aren’t that proactive
But what do you do when a known Dictator walks in?
Meta is going to establish itself, and go back to old habits once it’s on top in the fediverse.
Everyone gets excited over new things. While I won’t say that’s all that’s been going on, a lot of Lemmy/Kbin has been people hyping over something different.
That’s just how people are. And keep in mind for the most part, people who are against the idea weren’t going to check it out to begin with, especially with the required privacy release attached.
I mean…if you want unmodded entirely, don’t you just go to 4chan?
You need some moderation and they can’t all be exploitive self entitled if that can be argeed on. it has be working somehow