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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. some_furry ◴[31 Aug 25 06:04 UTC] No.45080743[source]▶
> Nobody outside tech cares about decentralization or federation.

People outside tech very much do care about the effects of centralization, though. They complain about it constantly, in oblique terms.

All the waxing poetic about "social media"? They aren't mad that people talk to each other. They're mad at platforms.

They just don't recognize the root cause of their pain points until they're sufficiently technical.