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Lemmy claims decentralization, but once you join a community on one instance you’re still subject to that instance’s rules and moderators. Being banned from c/community@instance still means you can’t post there unless you make a new account elsewhere. That isn’t real decentralization, it’s just fragmentation where every instance ends up replicating the same centralized moderation power in a different place. Federated instances don’t stop this, they just scatter the same problem across multiple servers. If the goal is escaping centralized control, the reality is you still get banned, silenced, or cut off the same way, the only “freedom” is signing up somewhere else. That’s not decentralization in practice, it’s decentralization in name only.

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah I think it works well. If an instance sucks, it's easy enough to use a similar community on a different instance, people will move. If an instance dies, it's easy enough to move the community to a different instance. We've seen it happen already. Way better than Reddit.

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