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Iapar@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

How is mastodon not just a bunch of centralized platforms?

Sure the servers communicate with each other but the content is still just on one of them. Goes the server, so goes the content.

Or am I mistaking?

If it is like I say I feel it is more trading Hitler in for, potentially, a bunch of smaller Hitlers.

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Foni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well, I am not a systems engineer to answer your question, in any case smaller Hitlers equals Hitlers with less power. Dividing power is not the definitive solution to authoritarianism, but it usually helps a lot, especially if the agents are also competitive. “If you are too Hitler, I’ll go to this other server that is a little less so” is a valid incentive to avoid the Hitlerization of the admins.

I don’t think I’ve ever used the name Hitler so much.

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Lanthanae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

a bunch of centralized platforms?

This is what decentralized means. If your home instance goes to shit, you can just move your account to another one.

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- Iapar@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But you can’t really? If I remember correctly you still lose all the posts, followers and pretty much everything that you would expect to keep.
  
  Technically you keep your account but let’s be honest, you don’t in the sense people want.
  
  Maybe my knowledge is dated but that is what I recall about moving accounts.
  
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