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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is have all users on one instance

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Threads software will still be centralized, but the network won't be. It's a bit like saying outlook.com email is centralized.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's big, and that's absolutely a threat from an embrace/extend/extinguish perspective. A big node on a decentralized network is still part of a decentralized network unless they start breaking the decentralization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

big node is still centralized

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And the sky is still blue? Who cares?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

point of fediverse is decentralization ._.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All individual nodes are centralized. One of those nodes being big doesn't mean the entire system becomes "centralized."

Email is decentralized despite Gmail having the major market share by far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

is contribute to centralization of whole network