Post 2807665 by mattgen88@cybre.space
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 (DIR) Post #2798290 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2019-01-09T10:59:50.655195Z
       
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       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYH2Z1A0x3cThere is the technical definition in terms of graph structure, but in simple terms I'd say that internet decentralization is happening when the information services which you depend on are not running from a warehouse and are geographically dispersed.
       
 (DIR) Post #2806760 by how@ps.s10y.eu
       2019-01-09T11:02:39Z
       
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       @bob I think it's more appropriate to define decentralization in terms of power structures. Look at Bitcoin: it was supposed to be completely distributed, but then, 10 years later, a single table of 5 people represented 90+% of the whole mining power. If you look at the Fediverse, and especially at where do the servers run, you might end up with a majority of Amazon servers... That's probably not what we should be calling decentralization.
       
 (DIR) Post #2806761 by uranther@cybre.space
       2019-01-09T17:57:13Z
       
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       @how @bob I like to break #decentralization down into three:1) architectural2) political3) logicalfollowing this post: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274
       
 (DIR) Post #2807665 by mattgen88@cybre.space
       2019-01-09T18:33:11Z
       
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       @uranther @how @bob your charts are unreadable. Also your description doesn't help. Image gets displayed on a black background and your headlines can't be read. Description doesn't describe the image content either.
       
 (DIR) Post #2807776 by how@ps.s10y.eu
       2019-01-09T18:37:45Z
       
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       @uranther @bob I don't understand "logically", "architecturally" and "politically" in this context.Especially as I don't see why direct democracy would be "architecturally centralized" since it's direct, so it should be applied locally -- hence decentralized.And yes, transparent backgrounds on images really suck in Mastodon: you should apply a white background on your image so it's readily readable.