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    1 day ago

    Otherwise someone else could fork it and replace them.

    It’s decentralised in theory just not in practice because of them owning all the relays and appview.

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      1 day ago

      Exactly, ads (or other lucrative monetization schemes) are a form of micro-agression, you have to force them on people and that requires bottlenecks and centralized control.