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We don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...

• xattt 2y ago
  Discovery sucks, though.
  • fsflover 2y ago
    Just like in the Internet?
  • culi 2y ago
    it's getting better
• JasserInicide 2y ago
  Mastodon is a walled garden
  • AlexeyBelov 2y ago
    Can you elaborate?
    • account42 2y ago
      Mastodon the software isn't. Mastodon the community is because they want to control who is and isn't allowed to federate.
  • adr1an 2y ago
    iiuc your argument, it would be more accurate to phrase it as: mastodon, lemmy, and other federated social protocols are like archipelagos of small islands. Or, you were referring to bluesky.
    • MichaelZuo 2y ago
      Mastodon contains several sub federations that near automatically ban each other’s users… So a very tribal and extremely violent archipelago of small islands…