Mastodon Is Not Decentralized · Victor Wynne
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The article discusses the limitations of Mastodon's decentralization, and the discussion explores alternative protocols like Nostr.
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Protocols like Nostr offer a good alternative to this. At the moment relays are just used as nodes in the decentralised network but there is work on how to view feeds from specific relays which could make the idea of content specific relays more likely