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Are we decentralized yet?

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487 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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colesantiago ◴[30 Aug 25 20:20 UTC] No.45077700[source]▶
The honest truth is that:

Nobody outside tech cares about decentralization or federation.

At some point, everything converges to centralization.

No amount of Mastodon servers or any fediverse self hosted instances spun up will change that.

There is a reason that mastodon.social is the biggest instance and that they couldn't close registrations to promote decentralization.

Hell, I would even say that threads is the biggest mastodon instance.

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1. timeon ◴[30 Aug 25 21:48 UTC] No.45078280[source]▶
This is true, but also the reason why it can get pretty cozy. Find the right corner - it will be sleepy - no need to check it constantly.

> Hell, I would even say that threads is the biggest mastodon instance.

So is Truth Social. But they are not federated with the rest.