FediTips has moved!
If you're just getting started on here, you may be wondering why this place has so many servers and apps. Why make it so complicated?
Click here to find out why:
Twitter is all on one server (twitter.com). This made it VERY easy for Musk to buy it. Any centralised network can be bought out just like this.
The Fediverse is different: as long as we stay spread out on many servers, no one will ever be able to buy this network, not even the richest person in the world.
Tracy Hall
well, no, it most certainly is not. I can unequivocally say it is spread across HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS of actual servers, managed by a load-balancing service. But it is under centralized control and ownership.
It's the federation protocols, not the multiple servers
tnypxl
@feditips @stux Twitter being on "one" server has no bearing on how easily it can be purchased.
It had more to do with their obligations to investors as a publicly traded company.
Mastodon being open-source is a bigger hedge against centralized control than the actual platform itself being federated.
Walker
@feditips This is very helpful to this newly active Mastodon user. Thank you for this a please keep it up for all the Twitter refugees seeking asylum and a better online life here.
wmpottsjr
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