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[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Mastodon (and other FOSS ActivityPub platforms) aren’t just great because they are open source, they are great because they are distributed.

The Internet was designed to be resilient, famously designed to withstand (a nuclear) attack. The World Wide Web started to make it monolithic and Web 2.0 resulted in a more centrally controlled infrastructure.

When an attack comes from above (like Musk, /u/spez, Meta and Google) one (group of) individual(s) can take our whole swathes of content in one policy change.

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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