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by dna_polymerase 1994 days ago
> Which means that in practice, it's very debatable how much more free these decentralized platforms are

100% more freedom right there. Freedom doesn't mean you can force me to listen to you. It means I can't force you to stop. What Mastodon enables people to do is a very direct way of stopping conversation with people that can't behave.