If you had to convince folks that the fediverse / activitypub isn’t decentralization and all the perils of the former, what stories/anecdotes/tech arguments work best?

Here’s a decent breakdown from before all the recent heat and noise

Here’s a decent breakdown from before all the recent heat and noise 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495086

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

Then there was one ethereum R&D guy who got instabanned from one of the main mastodon servers and the mods basically just said “crypto is a scam”

Mastodon is not decentralized it’s a network of digital gated HOAs where some of them honor each others badge cards

You could say it’s like subreddits (each w it’s own rules and mod drama) but it’s actually worse. If u get kicked off a subreddit you still have your username.

W mastodon your name is “@“ some server. So unless you run your own, you get to start over with a new name and 0 followers

hosting “self” has to become the norm for it to resonate with me. i’m giving some time to helping a friends startup in that space and I push at that often-ish with their teams