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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's big, and that's absolutely a threat from an embrace/extend/extinguish perspective. A big node on a decentralized network is still part of a decentralized network unless they start breaking the decentralization.

[–] sour@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

big node is still centralized

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

And the sky is still blue? Who cares?

[–] sour@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

point of fediverse is decentralization ._.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

All individual nodes are centralized. One of those nodes being big doesn't mean the entire system becomes "centralized."

Email is decentralized despite Gmail having the major market share by far.

[–] sour@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

is contribute to centralization of whole network