• Iapar@feddit.org
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    13 hours 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.

    • Foni@lemm.ee
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      2 hours 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.

    • Lanthanae@lemmy.world
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      11 hours 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.