cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40568658

I recently came across three separate platforms:

Qortal: https://qortal.org/

ZeroNet: https://zeronet.io/

and

Plebbit: https://plebbit.com/

That all claim to be completely decentralized.

There’s even talk about how Plebbit is more decentralized than the Fediverse, because the Fediverse is based off of instances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/s/0ynXzrD5H6

And I was curious, would such a setup work better for the Fediverse, or is it basically just a huge scam/waste of time and money?

  • wizard@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Blockchain does not mean decentralized. There are completely centralized blockchains, and there are completely decentralized systems without blockchains (like Tor).

    Centralization is as much a human problem as it is technical, that’s why everyone joins mastodon.social instead of looking for a smaller instance or spinning up their own.

    As for a more decentralized Fediverse, I think https://holos.social/ is a super interesting idea.