title: Feb 21 2024 - 07:47:11 PM
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@fromjason@mastodon.social the "computing cloud" as in infrastructure. Yes.
But social media is an application running on top of it. So the problem can be split. With fediverse is an step towards decentralized application layer.
The computing network can be addressed separately. Albeit a very difficult one.