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Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy
Monday March 4, 2019. 04:48 PM , from LWN.net
Here's a
lengthy piece from Alyssa Rosenzweig on preserving freedom despite the inevitable centralization of successful information services. 'Indeed, it seems all networked systems tend towards centralisation as the natural consequence of growth. Some systems, both legitimate and illegitimate, are intentionally designed for centralisation. Other systems, like those in the Mastodon universe, are specifically designed to avoid centralisation, but even these succumb to the centralised black hole as their user bases grow towards the event horizon.'
https://lwn.net/Articles/781205/rss
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