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by MichaelZuo 1324 days ago
According to another user it's not even decentralized, but centralized into competing blocs.
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How so? Every instance is not independent, they all communicate with each other. In practice, it's like everyone (Misskey, Pleroma, Mastodon) is on the same platform, except that some users have an address after their handle.
There's apparently a few very popular instances that are not federated at all with any of the other popular instances.