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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The Threads software will still be centralized, but the network won't be. It's a bit like saying outlook.com email is centralized.

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[–] sour@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

141 million users

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's big, and that's absolutely a threat from an embrace/extend/extinguish perspective. A big node on a decentralized network is still part of a decentralized network unless they start breaking the decentralization.

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