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Signal down due to AWS issues. Maybe centralization really isn’t such a great idea. Who would have thought.

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Random thought: the centralization of authentication to a few big OAuth providers like MS and Google, combined with services that time out your cookies and force relogins every so often, makes phishing people so much easier.
Want someone's account creds? Just pop up something that looks like a ms or google login form, odds are they're so conditioned by login fatigue that they'll automatically type their creds and TOTP token into it.

The Ruby ecosystem is going through some pretty hefty turmoil in an attempt to rescue and restore the integrity of their community.
I’m even seeing some good efforts in PHP-land to better distance itself from the vacuum of stable leadership in WordPress too.
Is there any such movement in JavaScript (the same problems exist)? The biggest pattern I’m seeing is a *huge* centralization in project funding!

The real villain in the story of ghost towns in Newfoundland is the government resettlement program. In 1965, a five-year federal-provincial partnership was established, and the Centralization Program was launched. It was later renamed the Fisheries Household Resettlement Program. Here's some very scary history.... oooooo.
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/resettlement-program.php

Yay! Let's celebrate centralization :mortysmile:
"Microsoft Azure Faces Global Outage Impacting Services Worldwide"
https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-azure-faces-global-outage-impacting-services-worldwide/

@… I hesitate to give any answer that suggests more centralization but (imo) investing in community that isn’t centered on specific tools and infrastructure would be a great start

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
Siu Kei Chung, Francisco Carpio, Andrei Navoichyk, Siarhei Valasovich, Jordan Moore, Slobodan Sudaric-Hefner, Daniel Baker, Thomas Demoor, Maurizio Binello, Christian Kaul, Kai Wawrzinek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04620

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While Web3 offers decentralized solutions, they often sacrifice either scalability, decentralization, or security, which are key elements in the blockchain trilemma. These solutions also struggle with limited access to enterprise-grade hardware and frequently rely…

Permuting Transactions in Ethereum Blocks: An Empirical Study
Jan Droll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25415 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25415

Permuting Transactions in Ethereum Blocks: An Empirical Study
Several recent proposals implicitly or explicitly suggest making use of randomized transaction ordering within a block to mitigate centralization effects and to improve fairness in the Ethereum ecosystem. However, transactions and blocks are subject to gas limits and protocol rules. In a randomized transaction order, the behavior of transactions may change depending on other transactions in the same block, leading to invalid blocks and varying gas consumptions. In this paper, we quantify and ch…