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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by Angostura on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:50PM (#33496953)
> Incentives mean most users end up centralized on a handful of servers with a worse experience.

I don’t understand this point. I’m on a tiny server, but read the federated feed most of the time. What’s the problem?

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by fossuser on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:53PM (#33497000)
Most users won't run their own server, they'll be on large centralized ones with all of the same problems that entails.
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