This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

  • M1k3y@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Kinda funny seeing the pope promoting decentralized systems, with the catholcatholic church being one of the most centralized hirachical systems.

  • Jayjader@jlai.lu
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    4 days ago

    Solid conclusion! I had seen headlines but never actually read excerpts of the Pope’s encyclical. Much to your article’s point, I suspect, I never would have expected the head of the Catholic church to produce writing and arguments so relevant to the current state of the fedi.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      4 days ago

      I read a fair bit of it, and I was surprised to see so many of the talking points I hear from some of the techy/sciencey people I most respect, just with a religious coat of paint. He’s clearly got some pretty clued up people advising him, and is wise enough to listen