• Iapar@feddit.org
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    10 months 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.

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      10 months 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.

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      10 months ago

      IIRC the content is on multiple. If there’s a single user on lemmy.world subscribing to content from somewhere.else’s foo community, then foo will be synced to lemmy.world and if somewhere.else is taken down it will remain on lemmy.world.

      But someone correct me if I’m wrong.

      Also, it isn’t just about servers going offline. If a single server does something bad, you can just switch to a different one and enjoy the same content you’ve been seeing.