and the ATmosphere is only recently “truly” decentralized
It’s absolutely not. There is no situation in which 99.999% of users on a single for profit platform can be accurately called decentralized.
Similarly, “federated” means jack shit when the only thing the for profit bluesky company is federated with are two micro-instances that are fully reliant on the for profit Bluesky company.
How are they completely reliant of the bluesky company?
If bluesky shut down tommorow they would still work, and while bluesky is currently the majority of users, it won’t be forever. If you give it a bit of time, other instances with many users will pop up.
Like, my whole argument is that you can’t write off a actually decentralized platform completely just because it’s currently centered on one large instance.
It’s absolutely not. There is no situation in which 99.999% of users on a single for profit platform can be accurately called decentralized.
Similarly, “federated” means jack shit when the only thing the for profit bluesky company is federated with are two micro-instances that are fully reliant on the for profit Bluesky company.
How are they completely reliant of the bluesky company?
If bluesky shut down tommorow they would still work, and while bluesky is currently the majority of users, it won’t be forever. If you give it a bit of time, other instances with many users will pop up.
Like, my whole argument is that you can’t write off a actually decentralized platform completely just because it’s currently centered on one large instance.
You are not behaving rationally.
Okay I think we disagree on semantics.
I think decentralized = anyone can set up their own instance that doesn’t depend on any other instance.
This is not a disagreement of semantics. You are attempting to redefine a word. You’ll never find a dictionary that uses your definition.
Okay, then what does it mean? What possible other definition could that word have, please be specific.
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I’m glad we agree! It’s decentralized :)
Notice how that website you love linking shows 98%, not 100%
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