• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    WikiLeaks was a centralized platform.

    Lavabit was a centralized platform.

    Tiktok is a centralized platform.

    Centralized platforms are proprietary, brittle, easily targeted. When they are taken down, they stay down.

    Lemmy is, effectively, a protocol, not a platform. Anyone can host an instance, and they all talk to each other by default. Any of the big instances get knocked down, and they get replaced by a dozen others. An instance may die, but so long as someone wants to put up another, Lemmy remains.

    Bitcoin is not a centralized platform. Tor is not a centralized platform. Government has had little success targeting these protocols.