[brucethemoose2]

So just from my perspective in the gaming world:

- Public matchmaking (aka centralization) sucks. Toxic users are loud and common, and the community has no tools to deal with them, which puts everyone at the mercy of the dev's minimal efforts. You don't feel like part of a community because you just get a randomized slice of the population shouting at you.

- Client hosting (pure decentralization) is like a ghost town and has performance issues. Actual distributed compute is rare... and a crypto pyramid scheme everywhere I have checked.

- High capacity dedicated hosting (aka federated hosting) is... nice. You get admins and mods who actually care about moderating their community and are small enough to handle it. When drama happens, server hop.

Hence to me, Mastadon is way more appealing than the p2p solutions.