Post #3113700

2022-11-13 10:37 UTC

@feditips@mstdn.social Centralized solutions always work better. As evidenced by your "solution" being basically useless to most people while theirs isn't. And the "fediverse" is already semi-centralized. How are privately maintained verification lists any different?

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@daskeit@mastodon.social 2022-11-13 10:42

@feditips@mstdn.social @Mickenfox@mastodon.online “centralised solutions always work better” [citation needed] Having multiple browser adblock lists in existence was good - when one sold out to advertisers to allow “responsible” ads, I could switch to others. Mastodon’s insistence on federation and decentralisation draws on a long line of thinking about the problems of centralisation and the risks of capture. Of course, you don’t have to care about any of that: https://xkcd.com/743/

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@atomicpoet@mastodon.social 2022-11-13 10:42

@Mickenfox@mastodon.online @feditips@mstdn.social >Centralized solutions always work better. Is that why you're here and not birdsite?

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@mykd@mastodon.social 2022-11-13 11:28

@feditips@mstdn.social @Mickenfox@mastodon.online I’m not sure “always” is true here, but certainly centralisation is typically an easy way to establish authority, and that’s important when discussing authentication.

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