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Myth: The #Fediverse™ Is Decentralised™
I run my own #Mastodon instance just for myself. An instance of one. What does that mean on today’s fediverse?
It means I’m on mastodon.social.
What?
That makes no sense!
Let me explain:
Since I have my own instance, surely I decide who I follow and anyone can follow me, right?
Wrong.
For ~1M accounts, Eugen decides. If he blocks my instance, a large number of people who follow me today will no longer be able to.
So I may as well be on his server.
@aral Dropping this 1M means that 90% of the Fediverse, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats, can still reach you. So, I call bullshit.
I hate Eugen's approach as much as you do, but please stop spreading FUD.
@phoe And what’s the trend towards centralisation and the growth of the largest servers? And how will that be influenced by the entry of centralised trillion-dollar corporations with money to burn?
Let’s see in a year or two whether this was FUD or not.
I hope that unlike the web, XMPP, and email that this time, for some reason unbeknownst to me at this time, it will be different and I will have been wrong. Will be celebrating if that’s the case.
@aral You're making a hypothesis about the future ("trend towards centralization" + "let's see in a year or two" above) and then claiming that they are true in the present (that the centralization already happened, see your previous post). This is bullshit in its purest form.
I've followed you for a while and I know your intentions are good, but making a conscious lie in an attempt to achieve your goals isn't going to work.
@phoe Yeah, man, I’m making a conscious lie, I’m terrible, blah blah blah. Wonderful. You really showed me. Congrats on choosing the right target to unload on. Go feel good about taking a dump on someone working to make things better.
Seriously, fuck off.