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Guys you can go read the amounts of grants that are keeping Nostr free relays viable, it is by no means any less than the amounts of VC money keeping projects with no users nor revenue afloat. It is much appreciated public goods, but it won’t last if the few wealthy donors disappeared. You should celebrate that public good funding, but please stop with the Bitcoin memes of unstoppablity … This network is very stoppable, because it is very expensive and there is no economic inertia to keep it going if it became too much of a political and legal trouble to the billionaires funding it.

Remember, one of these billionaires already quit an earlier public good because it caused him too much drama.

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This is a manipulatively framed question. Mastodon, today, claims to be decentralized. It explicitly says “decentralized social media platform.” In actuality, Mastodon is extremely centralized (domain names are a point of centralization, even if they didn’t intend to censor or manipulative the network social graph, the registrars and registries can do it for them) but furthermore Mastodon has explicitly used its points of centralization to harm free expression. They enforced defederation as a policy to destroy the network graph.

Mastodon and ActivityPub are chronic liars. They claim decentralization fraudulently while never having offered such. They specifically abuse the authority that they have garnered by controlling a centralized network to harm speech and human rights.

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