@mackuba @Blaze @fediverse that's what I said, no? just in more words.🤷‍♂️

And yeah, my opinion is mixed in, but I figured that should be obvious. Maybe I should put *opinion* somewhere in there?🤔

Most of it is true, with my opinion in 2 or 3 sentences.

@xnx I certainly cannot. I'm on my own instance and there's like 20,000 instances. Someone can *attempt* to yeet me. They'll have a hell of a time getting admin privileges to all instances though.

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@Cock_Inspecting_Asexual you can try Mbin. It's the only other alternative, but the layout is very similar.😬

UI is very subjective, but Reddit's is not really enjoyed by the masses since it changed 5-10 years ago, so I'm guessing that these UIs are trying to appeal to those people who don't like Reddits "new" corporate looking UI.🤷‍♂️

@Cock_Inspecting_Asexual nope. It's like Mastodon/Threads/Twitter.

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@xnx to each their own.

The anarchist in me doesn't feel right having a corporate overlord who can :yeet: me from existence whenever they choose.🤷‍♂️

That's not important to everyone and that's fine. We are all different.

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@xnx well, it doesn't really matter their reasoning when the end result is the same.

It won't become truly decentralized with these things in the way.

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@xnx yes! I mistyped.🫣

It's frontpage.fyi

Sorry!😅

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@blue_berry TBH I think our biggest strength here is decentralization, but every day we're inching closer and closer to centralization here in many ways and most don't care.

Mastodon controls how 73% of users interact with Fediverse. Threads, if it fully federates will completely take that over, but then we have 2 corporate entities in charge here and there's nothing any of us are doing about it.

They will be able to enact change in AP that most other softwares can't and effectively completely change Fedi as we know it.

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@mark thank you for the compliment and assurance friend.

I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn't wanna read a post that long.

Though, with topics like this that I'm very passionate about, I feel it's very important to lay out all the information and knowledge I have so that others can make informed decisions themselves based on the most important details.

I discuss Fediverse and networks like it, literally constantly and there's LOTS of nuances with these systems that need lots of explanations.

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@Drunemeton you're welcome, and thank you for the reassurance, friend.🫡

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@Blaze no problem, friend.

I always worry if my long winded answers make sense to neurotypical people as I'm ADHD and slightly autistic.😅

So I hope it does make sense, at least even partially.

Overall, they're mostly centralized because there's *very* few relays and they're required infrastructure, but decentralized in other ways, which may or may not matter in the bigger picture because of this previous information.

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@tengkuizdihar well, it's not difficult to federate, it's difficult to seperate your identity from BlueSky itself, if you're trying to create something on ATproto.

I doubt you'll see big news about a service using ATproto, the way Fedi platforms do, besides BlueSky because they really don't want you to differentiate that way.🤦‍♂️

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