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The Federation Fallacy (rosenzweig.io)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BarackObama to c/fediverse
 

An interesting article I saw (from 2019) describing the potential intrinsic tendency for decentralized platforms to collapse into de facto centralized ones.

Author identifies two extremes, "information dictatorship" and "information anarchy", and the flaws of each, as well as a third option "information democracy" to try and capture the best aspects of decentralization while eschewing the worst.

Someone said the link is broken so here it is: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

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[–] psychothumbs 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly it cannot be dominated by a single big player if you have to add up the top three instances to get to 50% of the users