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In that scenario is Mastodon not centralized?
by contravariant 4y ago
In that scenario is Mastodon not centralized?
- georgyo 4y agoNo, it's still federated. But my account of alice@foo.com follows bob@bar.com Bob registers his new Twitter handle so I, Alice, can find it on the central service of Twitter. A mapping of users to users can be across any service, including centralized to centralized (ie Twitter to Facebook) or decentalized to decentralized (IE Diaspora to Mastadon). It is just saying this string registered somewhere else as that string.
- contravariant 4y agoAh I see, thanks for the explanation.
- detaro 4y agoNo, that scenario is assuming a federated Mastodon (and other Fediverse software) as today.