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Originally Posted by drewprops
This is still a centralization.
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It's sort of in the middle between centralization (single-instance like Twitter or Facebook) and complete decentralization (every user is a peer that others need to directly connect to). The latter is impractical for a multitude of reasons, including:
- most people use social media on their phones, and iOS and Android severely restrict how background apps can connect to each other.
- CPU, bandwidth, latency concerns
- every single user now has to moderate what they receive. Yes, that's freedom™ in a way, in that you get to decide what you want to look at, but it's also paradoxically the opposite, in that you're now forced to scrutinize everything you receive.