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Twitter links out to content all the time - is that decentralized? Where's the line? - It's hosted on servers presumably operated by a centralized entity (YCom
by TobyTheDog123 4y ago
Twitter links out to content all the time - is that decentralized? Where's the line?
- It's hosted on servers presumably operated by a centralized entity (YCombinator/AWS/etc)
- It has moderation centralized to a specific set of people (which is weird sentence construction but I had to fit centralized in there for the point)
- Post content (even links), comments, accounts, etc, are stored in a centralized database (might be sharded or whatever, but you get the point, the control is centralized)
- It has a domain name and DNS records that are centralized to ICANN/whoever-hosts-the-dns
Centralization, to me at least, is about how content is delivered, not about how likely the product is to bounce you to an external source.