 Nostr is nice, but total decentralization isn’t user friendly. Federation allows some centralization, and that’s crucial, not only for UX but also scalability and more. Big instances are not ideal, but are better than a near empty ecosystem. Why is Threads adopting ActivityPub and not Nostr? 😉 4 comments
@dansup IMO decentralization is the ultimate solution, but federation is a very good tradeoff while we wait and hope for decentralised tech to mature. Decentralisation does not mean that you can't subscribe to a federated moderator. It just means you can choose not to, and for other things like resiliency, it has many advantages.   @dansup in terms of scalability I definitely cannot scale my mastodon instance because I can't afford to , at the very least p2p would be a great way to offload storage costs on federated servers. |
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On the Fediverse the admins have too much power to censor by banning users or defederating instances that don't ban them.
Nostr at least has not this disadvantage.
Mastodon could alleviate it by letting users revoke blocks for themselves:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3890