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They were always centralized. I can't comprehend how anyone could've thought otherwise. They're paying for the servers, they have executives and boardrooms, the
by 1270018080 3y ago
They were always centralized. I can't comprehend how anyone could've thought otherwise. They're paying for the servers, they have executives and boardrooms, they're making deals with advertisers, and had content policies since day 1.
- Ensorceled 3y agoFor the same reason a benevolent king and a cruel despot are not both considered tyrants. The problems with centralization were mostly theoretical for twitter and reddit ....
- jonhohle 3y agoI think it was more that “news” was coming directly from sources of authority rather than traditional news outlets. Why read WSJ, NYT, etc. tech column when I can follow my favorite tech people and get the news I care about + more directly from the people making the news? Obviously it’s not turned out that way and hopefully federation saves us all, but I don’t know if protocols will ever win over marketing.