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This reminds me of Tom Scott's excellent video on electronic voting machines, where he mentioned that the system for counting votes needs to be easily understandable to the average person so that they can adequately trust it.

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[โ€“] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a weird internal problem. It has to exist for understandable reasons, but also naturally makes it so that nobody will want to join any but the very largest instance, automatically centralizing it all again.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

Plenty of people are joining other instances than LW