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I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Recently, I've been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.

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[–] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 15 points 3 weeks ago

There are a few things I don't like about this scoring system :

Why is there a "Top Provider Content Share" metric if its gonna score the same as the "Top Provider User Share" every time ?
Why is the Top Provider Content Share not higher than the user share ? For instance, emails usually have at least one sender and one recipient, making it twice as likely that at least one of them is using gmail. If an email has 10 recipients across 10 different providers, each provider has a copy of the data
Why is ease of hosting a mail server rated so well ? How is "leveraging email hosting services" decentralized in any way ?
Why are we using a random repo created a few hours ago by a random github user as a reference ?