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@benroyce@mastodon.social Just to demonstrate, here is the account on another client/instance: https://reddwarf.whey.party/profile/spacelawshitpost.me

@ricci@discuss.systems @BenAveling@mastodon.ie @benroyce@mastodon.social Do you consider email decentralised? Gmail and outlook has more than 70% of the market share, and they are very willing to cut off your access to their servers if your email server looks suspicious. What about matrix (the protocol), 70% of users are on matrix.org, with another large amount on servers hosted by element. The problem with requiring users to be spread out between nodes for something to be decentralised is that it's completely arbitrary. If you consider decentralisation to be the inverse of centralisation (where there is only one provider), then bluesky is decentralised. Sure, it has a very prominent node, but so does matrix.

@benroyce@mastodon.social What do you define decentralisation as? From RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards (2023): [...] "centralization" is the state of affairs where a single entity or a small group of them can observe, capture, control, or extract rent from the operation or use of an Internet function exclusively.[Decentralization is when] "complete reliance upon a single point is not always required" (citing Baran, 1964)[...] federation, i.e., designing a function in a way that uses independent instances that maintain connectivity and interoperability to provide a single cohesive service. So, in the atproto network, people can migrate to other appviews, such as zeppelin.social, or app.wafrn.net when the current one they use makes a shitty decision, without even needing to migrate their account. You can easily migrate from your pds anyway, and it works better than on mastodon (more seamless, migrates your content as well, can be done when your pds is down). The network is only centralised if your definition of decentralisation includes spreading users across nodes. Your reddit analogy falls apart when you consider that reddit is not federated, when bluesky is. Mastodon and bluesky are both decentralised, and both excel at different things. ActivityPub is flawed in so many ways, that aren't a problem on atproto.

@volkris@qoto.org @fj@mastodon.social They were talking about Europe being "freeloaders".

@matidmgdef@mastodon.social @dansup@mastodon.social The main problem with VCs is that they will want to claw the money they invested back.

@aspensmonster@tenforward.social @jwz@mastodon.social @claudius@darmstadt.social @mathowie@xoxo.zone https://signal.org/bigbrother/ They will share the unix timestamp of when your account is made if someone gives them your phone number.

@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @benroyce@mastodon.social No, the link works fine.

@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @benroyce@mastodon.social Oh, sorry. I can still see and interact with the user.

@benroyce@mastodon.social I'm not trying to call you a cultist, sorry if it came off that way. I just think that there's a lot of people on the fediverse who are rabidly anti-bluesky, not because they care about decentralisation, but because they feel superior about being on the fediverse. There's the same thing on bluesky, but its much less prominent.

@shved@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social It may sometimes trigger it, but duckduckgo seem to have worked hard for it not to be used for that purpose