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They are two different things.
It's like hangout spots. People congregate there. You can have a setup where everyone goes in to one place and from there they head to different rooms in that place and all rooms have their own rules and the place itself has its rules. If there's a single place, that's centralized. If there's a collection of those places each with their own set of rules and rooms, that's decentralized.
They each have their pros and cons (centralized makes it easier for people to find specific communities since they are all rooms in the same place, but means that you're SOL if you don't like the way that place is run), but both systems allow people (or links) to congregate.
its an internet forum, not a bar. you're here to talk about specific topics, and when you don't have enough people to do anything more than post memes or tech articles on 20 subs total, there isn't a reason to divide any specific community.