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Yes, if everybody would run their own instance, that would make it decentralized. But that is not going to happen. We need a protocol that allows ownership of y

by Timja 4y ago

Yes, if everybody would run their own instance, that would make it decentralized. But that is not going to happen. We need a protocol that allows ownership of your social graph without having to host your own server.

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schmichael 4y ago
Your original post said you wanted a protocol, not a decentralized protocol. Mastodon/ActivityPub have chosen a federated model over a decentralized one. Federated has a lot of usability and scalability benefits over decentralized, but users sacrifice some privacy and ownership abilities. Everyone is free to choose their own tradeoffs.
jayknight 4y ago
I'm interested to see where https://atproto.com/ https://atproto.com/ goes.