# Fediverse vs. Farcaster discussion

Source: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x639bfcc3

## Comments

**timdaub.eth**: Not a bad argument in the beginning but there is some how a lack of accuracy further down where it all becomes very hand wavy because the chain of arguments becomes to complex for Twitter-style replies to do a good job.

**mishaderidder.eth**: Fwi saying this after actively engaging with the Fediverse for 2 years. I even home ran my own Mastodon instance for a year. In my opinion the Fediverse is dead. Reason, it’s boring. So I said it :) 

**macbudkowski.eth**: Last year at censorship.wtf, I attended a workshop by people who used to run one of the biggest Chinese Mastodon instances. They had a few million users, and it cost them tens of thousands of $ per month to keep it running. 

But the much bigger problem was that three-letter agencies were reaching out to them to censor some content. Many of these requests came ofc from China, but some were from other countries. And I think this is the downside of the Fediverse system - if you have control over your instance's data and it's not being replicated by others, it also means you can be more easily pressed to censor it.

**noctisatrae.eth**: I'm so biased towards favoring the fediverse. I think it's a wonderful livable architecture that works very well :)