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Is this really necessary, and is it what we truly want? Here’s one real-world early-stage cautionary-tale example of why not, why we should be careful to decentralize in a different way.

Two days before the public announcement that Threads would be testing the ActivityPub protocol with a limited Mastodon presence, I received a notice from Facebook that a post I had made about Mastodon more than a year prior had been taken down for violating community standards as spam.