Benjamin Mako Hill is a user on social.coop. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
Interesting article discussing limitations of distributed web services by the MIT Civic Media: https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/
Responses:
1. Lame clickbait title. I expect more from that team.
2. All users running servers *is* unlikely but it's misleading to imply that anything less is "not working." Success for decentralized services looks like email: hub and spoke model driven by organizations with IT departments who just aren't willing to hand their data and infrastructure over to an outsider.
@mako yeah, that seems like success as long as many of those orgs are collectives / co-ops with democratic governance structures or small affinity groups.
@mako Interesting that they name proven identities as a problem - Twitter is full of "parody accounts" and, aside from the opaque "blue checkmark" process, has no useful way of helping users find the real ones.