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submitted 4 weeks ago by TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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[–] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Otherwise someone else could fork it and replace them.

It’s decentralised in theory just not in practice because of them owning all the relays and appview.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Exactly, ads (or other lucrative monetization schemes) are a form of micro-agression, you have to force them on people and that requires bottlenecks and centralized control.