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by cody_coconuts 1254 days ago
Won't a centralized platform always have a wider audience than a decentralized one? I think that's one of the hurdles that you have to get over by offering other advantages
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Yes, that’s why everyone uses AOL for email rather than that faddish SMTP.

More seriously, there’s nothing in particular that requires complete centralisation for success, though a future billion person ActivityPub network probably relies mostly on a few giant hosts (a la gmail) rather than millions of small ones.