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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With federation, if I move servers I lose my comment, post, and upvoted history; people messaging me; and my subscribed communities

That is in no way an inherent limitation. It's just a current limitation with Lemmy and kbin.

You can move from one Mastodon instance to another and take your followers and follows with you. And if you move to a Calckey-bases instance, you can even import your old posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the clarification! I don’t use Mastodon because I’ve never really been interested in Twitter, so I was very unaware of that.