[dlivingston]

My knee-jerk reaction to this is that it's immature posturing. The internet is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. Email is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. But for this decentralized protocol (Mastodon/ActivityPub), centralized entities are a bridge too far?

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

>. The internet is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities

Maybe they're mature enough not to want that?

Sign up to protonmail.com for some privacy, to have your emails not read by Proton Inc., and quickly realize that most – if not all – your contacts are receiving your messages @gmail.com. All your emails will still be exploited by Google Inc.

There are good reasons to want the Fediverse to remain… diverse. Blocking isn't posturing, it's acting.

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