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Yes. It is. They're only theoretically decentralised because practically it would require Big Tech resources to host an instance which is exactly what happens when rich kids from a big company and without wider awar6design something. They just didn't think. Or maybe they thought it could be ironed out later (spoiler alert: highly u likely). And I think they are still reserving right to be the gatekeeper for all the messages (which is required to have their composable moderation to work). So in the end they have Twitter 2.0 I wouldn't call it X because X is a neonazi cesspool without moderation and they were based on The Old Twitter. And there's a difference. Twitter's main product was not a place to write messages but a moderated place where journalists and politicians as well as AAA artists could post without being bothered. Sometimes they would even talk to each other. Between them were us the normies and sometimes we would be honoured to be shown to the big people. And then Twitter could place advertisement there in between. When Elon Musk fired moderation I knew the thing is going down the drain because that move showed that he doesn't understand what he bought And coming back to Bluesky being Twitter 2.0. I think the reason why those famous people left there en masse is because it's again a moderated space for them. That is the product they want. That is a product they get. Everyone's happy Fediverse seems to be working better as it is decentralised but with instances being the smallest unit. The idea was to have small or even single-person instances which work well but there are so called mega instances (with the official mastodon.social being the biggest offender) which skews the dynamics and power balance Both Bluesky and Fediverse's mega instance show me that people collectively aim for centralisation of some sort. It's efficient and we are a herd animal after all so why go against own nature? I'm watching all this with curiosity. My bold claim is that Nostr is still too small to be on a radar of anyone really malicious and many people mistake this with protocol itself being the reason for that. It's not but there still hasn't been any real test (bunch of gay porn bots doesn't count)
↩ replying to tuco
The aspect of "my house = my rules" works quite well in Fediverse. You create an instance with a bunch of like-minded people and you federate with others. If another instance doesn't like you they defederate you. So you can have your rules and still be a part of a larger structure. But then: mega instances 🙃 Free speech is a bit of an impossible concept for me so I'll leave it. But generally yeah there are various channels of expressing oneself