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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 20:35:37 JST Aral Balkan

   This is the elephant in the room with federation that supports instances of 1 or 1 million. The ones with 1 million become the mini Facebooks with mini Mark Zuckerbergs; infinitely more powerful than the instances of 1 or 100 and unaccountable to anyone but themselves. Decentralisation is about devolution of power. There’s a reason I’m designing the Small Web as a peer-to-peer web with only instances of one.

   #SmallWeb #federation #decentralisation #power #equality https://mastodon.social/@rzeta0/114530156734366682

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 05:50:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • happyborg

     @happyborg Will check it out, thanks. Although I don’t understand how it needs no server. (No need to waste your time explaining, I’ll look into it.) :)

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     happyborg (happyborg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 05:50:02 JST happyborg

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     @aral
     See also p2p: #ScratchChat, just published needs no server, intermediaries and is end-to-end encrypted.

     More here:
     https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg/114541811455576193

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     happyborg (happyborg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:09:44 JST happyborg

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     @aral I mean no remote server, hosting etc. You install dweb, run 'dweb serve' and so you do have a local server.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:09:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • happyborg

     @happyborg Ah, gotcha, makes more sense :)