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Written by morrowind@lemmy.ml on 2024-09-12 at 23:12

An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises

https://lemmy.ml/post/20234577

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Written by cabbage on 2024-09-13 at 11:48

They define decentralisation as an even distribution of users? Or did I get that wrong skimming the paper?

This seems arbitrary. Mastodon is a decentralised network, no matter how big Mastodon.social is. Lemmy is equally decentralised, even though there's a dominant actor.

The other hubs in the network don't revolve around mastodon.social/lemmy.world. they connect to each other bilaterally - if the central hubs disappeared over night it wouldn't affect them all that much.

I think the notion that decentralised networks can't have hubs of varying sizes is plain wrong, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what decentralized means.

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