Re: Gemini is not decentralized
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Over at the Midnight Pub, ~ostov complains [1] that Gemini is not
decentralized, pointing out that capsules can be "banned" just the
same as on the surface web.

On the face of it, this is a pretty ridiculous statement.  There's
nothing intrinsically centralized about gemini or http (or gopher -
hello, we're still here!) as protocols.

However, I do agree that geminaunts tend to fall more often than not
into the "centralization is bad" camp.  So, like the author of this
post, I've found it somewhat perplexing that people seem to be at the
same time so quick to throw themselves behind explicitly centralized
social hubs such as Midnight Pub, Station, etc.

This is not to say that these hubs are bad. They're run by generous
members of the community, for free, for the rest of the community.
But, like ostov, I do think we need to think very hard before setting
up camp in somebody else's computer.

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[1]: gopher://midnight.pub/0/posts/1146
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