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by ted0_2021 1841 days ago
I find decentralized alternatives to popular sites like Instagram, Facebook etc confusing. It may be due to my misunderstanding:

If I choose not to host a node and choose to use another provider.. am I not putting the same trust in that node as I do with Facebook? The host is responsible data leaks, poor security, ads, bad ethics, etc.

In theory with perfect hosts, this works. In reality, some hosts will be bad.