Centralization is inevitable - by Gordon Brander
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...but decentralization is right behind it.
I would like to decentralize the web somewhat. Unfortunately, designing an idealized architecture won’t be enough to do it. Gordon Brander@gordonbrander "That just sounds like centralization with extra steps." 8:35 PM · Jul 9, 2021 1 Repost · 8 Likes Consolidation tends to sneak into systems, often in surprising places, and frequently through some aspect we might feel is “outside” of the system. So, if you happen to want to decentralize, it helps to know how and why centralization happens in the first place. Ok, first, what do we mean centralization? One sense of centralization is…
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