I've seen plenty of discussions in recent days over the network structure of Mastodon and whether it can remain decentralized as large commercial players begin taking an interest in the fediverse. I am neither an engineer nor an economist, but I do research the way media and information get distributed and I have some thoughts on this. A thread…
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@josh thank you very much for this highly informative thread. I am on a relatively small instance and already seeing several of the issues you are raising becoming serious. in particular it seems several instances are defederating ours over some policy differences. Don't know what's the right way to deal with this but I don't like what is happening.
