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The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

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

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Show threadRyan Hutchins
@feditips what does the number of servers have to do with the complexity of buying a company?
Dec 18, 2022 at 10:06pmWeb
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Dec 19, 2022

@ryhutchfilm @feditips Because the servers are being run by independent people, and some of those servers aren't even running Mastodon software.

Buying the Mastodon company (that makes the open source Mastodon software) would have approximately zero impact on any servers other than mastodon.social, which the Mastodon company does operate. All other servers remain independent, and might even choose to defederate from mastodon.social in that case.