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Are we decentralized yet?

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487 points Bogdanp | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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INTPenis ◴[30 Aug 25 19:45 UTC] No.45077453[source]▶
We're more decentralized in fedi but we're also not really consistent either. Which I think is the number one gripe for users who manage to get into the fedi.

I don't mind, I still think it's a huge leap forward, but it's important to set realistic expectations.

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kace91 ◴[30 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45077542[source]▶
What do you mean by consistent?

(Never used the fediverse, so zero context here).

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skybrian ◴[30 Aug 25 20:50 UTC] No.45077886[source]▶
Not who you're replying to, but one issue is that different users will sometimes see a different subset of replies to a post, depending on what the server they're using has copied from other servers.
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alethic ◴[30 Aug 25 21:14 UTC] No.45078071[source]▶
This isn't correct. Mastodon merged fetch-all-replies in March. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615

The only difference in visible replies is in the moderation choices of the server the post is viewed from.

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1. INTPenis ◴[31 Aug 25 10:01 UTC] No.45081945[source]▶
Yes but it's off by default for a reason, it's not realistic to expect every node to fetch all messages.

This is a catch 22 because the reason fedi is more decentralized is because of the low barrier of entry to run a node, but at the same time that low barrier means it takes less resources because it does not fetch every single message and piece of media.

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2. alethic ◴[01 Sep 25 18:19 UTC] No.45095217[source]▶
It's currently on on the flagship instance and will be on by default in the upcoming 4.5 release.
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3. INTPenis ◴[05 Sep 25 06:51 UTC] No.45135673[source]▶
Creating more monolithic centralization.

Us small instances can't afford it.