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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: 0.223s | source
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Animats ◴[30 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45077547[source]▶
Keep the needle pointing north. Towards the center of that dial.

Too decentralized, and you can't find anything. Nobody uses it.

Too centralized, and censorship takes over. Nobody can speak freely.

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righthand ◴[30 Aug 25 20:32 UTC] No.45077767[source]▶
“Too decentralized” critics should form a non-profit where public hosts can register and build an opt-in index for all the decentralized content. Then there is no discoverability issue.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook tries to eventually capture that data with Threads.

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1. M2Ys4U ◴[30 Aug 25 22:38 UTC] No.45078600[source]▶
Mastodon (the company) is building one: https://www.fediscovery.org/