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1. ~archangelic (archangelic@cybre.space)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 13:59:47 EST ~archangelic

   i think the most important part of mastodon is not necessarily the tech side of decentralization, but the decentralization of community management. a monolith cannot handle small communities and how to manage their various issues. decentralized platforms can excel on that.

   1. brennen (brennen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 14:15:04 EST brennen

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      @archangelic yeah, just so. decentralization is about power relationships.

      there are in fact legitimate _technical_ reasons to prefer centralization of many systems, it's just that our technical culture fails by not considering _concentration of power_ a likely failure mode. (well, honestly, by considering it a goal most of the time.)