FediTips has moved!Nov 22, 2022

If you're just getting started on here, you may be wondering why this place has so many servers and apps. Why make it so complicated?

Click here to find out why:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Twitter is all on one server (twitter.com). This made it VERY easy for Musk to buy it. Any centralised network can be bought out just like this.

The Fediverse is different: as long as we stay spread out on many servers, no one will ever be able to buy this network, not even the richest person in the world.

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@feditips mmm, well... Twitter is on one domain but that doesn't necessitate one server/instance. There are some giant Internet systems and they can be distributed and redundant under the covers. It's certainly true that the owner of the domain has considerable power with regard to the services offered and control of who can play among them and how. That's the "centralization," seems to me. I don't want to think of the ways that the fediverse can be disrupted, including from within.
Nov 22, 2022 at 11:55pmWeb