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Re:Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built... by Cyberdog on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:22PM (#16276115)
> it's just not tied to the politics of hardware

What do you mean by this? Is there some sort of hardware politics battle in the GNU social community or something?

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Re:Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built... by setra on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:59PM (#16276486)
When someone else runs the server you use, and your account is tied to their server, you are at the whims of the server owner, and are not able to migrate your identity.
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