<story><title>We Are Trying Out PeerTube</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/we-are-trying-out-peertube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>The problem for the Fediverse will always be domains, in my opinion. It sounds silly to the technical demographic, but to a normal person, it is a massive issue.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Which server do I choose to get in bed with?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just a question of which server do you trust to be a good actor and to not shut down tomorrow. It&amp;#x27;s also a question of which domain name do you want associated with your user account?&lt;p&gt;Do you want alice@cucumbers.pizza? Or do you want alice@witches.bike?&lt;p&gt;I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.&lt;p&gt;When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&amp;#x27;t have to be myself + something else.&lt;p&gt;Consequently, this is the strength of P2P networks. Remove the domain question entirely. I _am_ just a long string of characters (which is like my essence), but people call me by my name. Just like in normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emersion</author><text>&amp;gt;When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&amp;#x27;t have to be myself + something else.&lt;p&gt;Well, it&amp;#x27;s still you + gmail.com. It could be you + fastmail.com, it could be you + posteo.de, it could be you + &amp;lt;insert other e-mail provider&amp;gt;. You still chose gmail over another provider, like you could choose cucumbers.pizza over another provider in the case of the Fediverse.</text></comment>
<story><title>We Are Trying Out PeerTube</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/we-are-trying-out-peertube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>The problem for the Fediverse will always be domains, in my opinion. It sounds silly to the technical demographic, but to a normal person, it is a massive issue.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Which server do I choose to get in bed with?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just a question of which server do you trust to be a good actor and to not shut down tomorrow. It&amp;#x27;s also a question of which domain name do you want associated with your user account?&lt;p&gt;Do you want alice@cucumbers.pizza? Or do you want alice@witches.bike?&lt;p&gt;I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.&lt;p&gt;When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&amp;#x27;t have to be myself + something else.&lt;p&gt;Consequently, this is the strength of P2P networks. Remove the domain question entirely. I _am_ just a long string of characters (which is like my essence), but people call me by my name. Just like in normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>GMail won because I had to keep deleting email from my old provider, Google was pretending to &amp;quot;not be evil&amp;quot;, and they offered me an ever-increasing amount of storage. Then I told my friends about it. Eventually, everyone used it because everyone who should&amp;#x27;ve known better (myself included) recommended it to them.</text></comment>