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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2017 18:02:46 EST Annah
   Centralizing authority on the fediverse would be a very bad idea and anyone who thinks that it would be a good one clearly doesn't understand what the fediverse is about.
   
   Most of them don't want to.  They just want to embrace, extend, and extinguish.  Use the fediverse network for their own means as a stepping stool.
   1. hoergen (hoergen@social.hoergen.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2017 19:13:14 EST hoergen

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      @maiyannah nobody wants to centralize. The opposite is the case. It's about a philosophy and the ability to communicate with each other, if wanted.
      1. Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2017 04:29:22 EST Rysiekúr Memesson

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         @hoergen @maiyannah *and* communicate with people from outside of The Fediverse.

         Case in point, a friend wants to leave birbsite, asks me where should they go. My answer now: "Well, you can go to Pleroma, or GNIU Social, or Mastodon, or..." friend gets confused, backs away slowly.

         If I could just say "Fediverse" and point them to a single place of finding an instance on whichever part of the network, that would be a whole different story.

         That's how Mastodon (sadly!) eclipses the Fediverse.