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    Against Decentralization

    ▻http://pudo.org/blog/2015/11/04/against-decentralization.html

    But it’s obviously also a troubled model, and the majority of the web is moving towards more centralized services. Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon or even GitHub and Slack. Most open web advocates stand in opposition to this. They opt to build small, open source alternative solutions that anyone can run on their own server.

    If you squint really hard, these things kinda, sorta look like the real thing. But, fundamentally, this is the Ersatz web for the nerdy elite. Even worse, it puts open web developers - in a very literal sense - in a conservative, rather than in a progressive position.

    Figuring out how to get better at making open centralized services is one. Pushing for innovative government regulation of monopolistic platforms is another.

    So, what’s the alternative to decentralization? Laws. Public service websites. Creating commons infrastructure. But let’s just not pretend any more that the future of the web is all about better UX for our IRC clients.

    #décentralisation #communs #gouvernements #lois

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      This means working with government. You know, the thing our buddy Barlow said didn’t exist in cyberspace but that somehow still got full take on our web traffic. It’s no longer cool to engage with government only when they’re about to screw things up - net censorship, surveillance, copyright policy - and to pretend that all political issues on the web can be solved given enough distributed hash tables.

      #silicon_valley

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