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Why are federated systems too complicated for practical use?


Look, email doesn't work, that's clear proof. DNS doesn't either and if the whole Internet hadn't been centralized long ago, it would have stopped working in, like, 1982. Or, maybe, they are not being honest and centralized gives them more control, like FB.




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