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How is federated social media better? (pawb.social)

submitted 15 hours ago by Inkstainthebat@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I found myself chatting with my dad and brought up the topic. I couldn't come up with any actual advantages a federated platforms had. The main reason I use any federated platforms is because they're either not as enshittified as the alternatives or run by huge dickwads. Since it mostly fits those criteria, I'm on Bluesky too, but once that goes I'll either switch to another un-shittified platform or Mastodon.

But on its own, what advantage does a federated social media have?

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[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Federated social media is decentralized, so one single jackass can control it completely.

Like, maybe Elon Musk buys pawb.social, he now controls pawb.social & can be a tyrant in pawb.social just like he has been with Twitter.

He still can’t control quokk.au, or lemmy.world, or feddit.org, or lemmy.ca, or lemmy.dbzer0.com, or lemmy.blahaj.zone, etc.

And in the extremely unlikely event that if Elon does manage to buy pawb.social, it is extremely likely that many lemmy servers would just defederate from pawb.social & leave pawb.social isolated from the rest of the fediverse.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 48 minutes ago

missing a word in your first sentence