<p>Finally worked my way through <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@cwebber" class="u-url mention">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span> re:-re: post on decentralization <a href="https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-blue</span><span class="invisible">sky-decentralization/</span></a></p><p>It's long and technical, but it inspired me to offer my own, admittedly simplistic, definition of a decentralized social network:</p><p>If a social app forces you to choose an instance before anything else, it's decentralized. If not, it's not.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decentralization</span></a></p>
