Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)

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    Decentralization was a thing back in the 1990s and 2000s with all of the little message board communities out there. I think people desire centralization without the drawbacks of control going to a small group of people so that’s why we have the fediverse.

    Like all this is more of a move back to how the Internet once worked. It’s nothing new (at least to those of us who grew up with the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s).

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      Even further back we had Usenet. Federated forums that all worked more or less like Lemmy. I was a regular on de.rec.sf.starwars until the early 2000s.