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I kinda prefer cooperation over decentralization. Decentralization as a design goal is a way to reach cooperation. You can have very well cooperating system parts in a centralised solution.

The thing is that most centralised platforms has been really bad at incorporating cooperation so I can understand if some people are leaning on decentralization being the only way to reach this.

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Centralized platforms by necessity have a power nexus. Whoever controls that nexus, has little reason to cooperate with everybody else. Even when the arrangement is truly democratic, it still sucks for everyone in the minority.

Do you mean like https://social.coop/, which is a cooperatively-run server? Can you elaborate? :)

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