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.