shrugal

The vast majority of sites just check the user agent string, so this is not really an issue.

Yes. Instances only get updates from external communities if at least one user of that instance is subscribed to the community, and that's how instances populate their All feed.

I've tried a few and landed on the "VaKo 12 Ports Dockingstation". Most reliable hub I used so far. I bought it 3 years ago and it's still working flawlessly.

Using p2p for messaging is really nice for decentralization, but it has the major downside that both communication partners have to be online at the same time to find each other and transmit a message. So you might have to wait for it until both look at their phones at the exact same time. On top there are privacy issues, like being able to see the devices and public IP addresses of other users.

Imo its just not practical and robust enough to be used by millions of non-techy people.

Depends on the level of technology we are using. If we're zapping around from one habitable planet or interesting space phenomenon to another star trek style then absolutely yes! But a hard no with our current level of technology. I like to spend my time in an environment that's actually somewhat friendly to life.

We could also just delete stuff after some time. Nobody really needs the 1000th repost of a meme from 20 years ago.

Yes it's also federated, so you can access their instances and communities pretty much like the Lemmy ones.

I blocked a handful of people who seem to post things every few minutes.

I think this poll is pretty biased right now and doesn't reflect the actual community opinion about the topic. The original proposal ranks lower than the option to have an opt-out toggle buried in the settings, which is clearly much worse for privacy. So either people are really anti-privacy, or many just voted in opposition to the proposal.

Fedirect

This is what I hope happens to Twitter & Meta.

Fedora! To me it sits right at the sweet spot of stability and bleeding edge (they call it "leading edge"), and I'm very happy with how they run things (including the most recent controversy!).

Your right to choose is the same as everybody else's right to choose. You can decide to post something, and others can decide they don't want to see it. Decentralized just means there is no one entity to make those decisions for you.