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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

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Beginners Start Here | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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adsf Dec 18, 2022

@feditips I mean there are downsides to this approach too. For example, security is more difficult to manage due to fragmentation and mods/admins exert arbitrary control over their instance.

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cytokine_storm

@asdfasdfasdf @feditips at least on Mastodon I can choose which admin I want to deal with (or be my own).

As for security; 100 small safes with different locks will be challenging to exploit even if they are technically less secure than twitter or your bank.