mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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Myth: The ™ Is Decentralised™

I run my own 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 ITT: a bunch of people thinking Aral doesn’t know exactly how this network works…