February 26th, 2026 14:15

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:28 +0000

There’s a fundamental tension at the heart of the #Fediverse. Rightly or wrongly it’s consistently presented as “an alternative to X” (where X is X, or some other social media). However the flipside of that is that X had everybody in one place. On mastodon, everybody is in different places. The pro-fedi crowd say “it doesn’t matter it’s decentralised, but we can all still talk, just like email”. Yet the other benefit of the decentralised networks is that each instance can be an island, only joined to the ones that it cares about. This creates the tension for potential emigres from big tech.

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February 26th, 2026 14:15