Yeah, that's basically the new goalpost I've been seeing for Masto people this week more than once - "ok, yes, you can run other copies of the infra, but can *any user* do that, easily and cheaply, for $10, running one script? no? then not decentralized"
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new goalposts: if _you_ are not running every piece of the network, then it isn't decentralized.
wait but wouldn't that be....nevermind
wait but wouldn't that be....nevermind
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(It also ignores the fact that the vast majority of users do not self host, don't want to, and never will)
AFAIK AP devs outside of Masto hate working with the protocol, it's something I keep hearing a bit about. I remember someone who worked on AP telling Cohost NOT to implement it.
idk if it's mastodon specifically but AP doesn't seem very good of a protocol lol. the more i learn about it the more confused i get.
atproto on the other hand is just kinda a bunch of webservers and some search engines lmao
What do you mean even DHT clients have rendezvous servers hardcoded