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dansinker knowtheory pilhofer blaine I do think both are really interesting! But ActivityPub in general, and Mastodon in particular, is not designed for 'true decentralization'. There are other specs and platforms for that. IPFS, Gemini and (I think) BlueSky's AT...Permalink On twitter.com
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dansinker knowtheory pilhofer blaine If you try and avoid the federated forum-ish style of use, and rob yourself of the features of being part of a community instance, I think you're going to end up fighting against the system in a way that will make your experience less pleasant.On twitter.com
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dansinker knowtheory pilhofer blaine I'm very interested in decentralized systems like the ones I mentioned, but I think it is important to go into Mastodon, a federated system, knowing that it is not and will not ever be that. By design.Permalink On twitter.com
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dansinker knowtheory pilhofer blaine Notably: the architecture of ActivityPub makes it so that it is just as expensive to run a self-hosted server as one single popular person as it is to run a fairly well populated server of many people with varying degrees of popularity.Permalink On twitter.com
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