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   simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:13:03 JST simsa04

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   • Aral Balkan
   Always funny to watch people's conflation of "decentralized" with "independent / unhampared communication". In fact, decentralisation offers main instances the same power over user interactions *across* the fediverse as would "walled gardens". As a result, the old distinction between "closed" and "open gardens" makes no sense any more. More important is who can scale first and can thus set the standards. The rest follows suit or disappears in his invisibility. But people have been warned. They wanted the fediverse to grow and expand, and that means that Rochko and his Mastodon won.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:13:04 JST Aral Balkan

     Myth: The #Fediverse™ Is Decentralised™

     I run my own #Mastodon instance just for myself. An instance of one. What does that mean on today’s fediverse?

     It means I’m on mastodon.social.

     What?

     That makes no sense!

     Let me explain:

     Since I have my own instance, surely I decide who I follow and anyone can follow me, right?

     Wrong.

     For ~1M accounts, Eugen decides. If he blocks my instance, a large number of people who follow me today will no longer be able to.

     So I may as well be on his server.