Yes!
#Fediverse is not fully decentralized; it's centralized around instances. Recentralized if you will.
This actually matters practically as it's caused issues, for example with the traffic surges as the centralized servers around the internet reach out for page previews to cache all at once.
And in the debates over defederation.
#ActivityPub is not a decentralized system design, although it could have been, and I think some opportunities were missed there.
How about looking at the matter this way:
The #Fediverse is a federation of *loosely-coupled* systems that perform CRUD operations on structured data (#ActivityStreams) using a common protocol (#ActivityPub).
It's basically all driven by open standards vs proprietary #APIs.
Net effect, no instance has unilateral ownership of:
1. User Identity,
2. User Social Network
3. User Content
@kidehen @SrRochardBunson @atomicpoet
Well, I'd only change the word unilateral to universal :)
My instance can absolutely screw with my identity and content unilaterally. It just can't screw with everyone else's, universally.
But sure, federation isn't **bad** it's just not as fully decentralized as I would have liked to see, where each user really does have that ownership.
