How ? I know its centralized with uploads.
Decentralized social does depend on some centralization to get started with discovering peers and relays
Discussion
Relays could behave like Fedi admins I suppose. Can relay ops decide to one day mute individuals? They can do so with spam right?
I tried talking about this alot and relays can manually whitelist or blacklist. They think its a good idea for some reason for relays to be a free4all
Relays are basically a .txt file that anyone can add text to
If you rely on only one yes, but if ten it's harder that all ten will collaborate to mute, but if you have your own and rely on others that you know and trust then the risk is to live inside some bubble, there won't be censorship but transmitting and receiving notes from outside the bubble may be a problem.
The fact that it is possible is what it can become. There is a responsibility and liability involved which I can understand.
This is a bruteforcing approach and it will never scale, it's wrong. With better clients people can easily be on small or personal relays and still not be at any risk.
Yes, they can and it's expected that they do.