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Regarding reliability and resilience, the article conflates centralized ownership with a centralized architecture. FB and Google etc all run very distributed f
by willvarfar 9y ago
Regarding reliability and resilience, the article conflates centralized ownership with a centralized architecture. FB and Google etc all run very distributed fault-tolerant systems and have an army of decent techs making sure it keeps running. In practice, all the clutter of outdated unpatched unreliable abandoned boxes on the Internet are the self-hosters. And whilst a single entity can be targeted by an attack and fail hard, so can other parts of Internet architecture that are critical such as bgp and dns and large providers and so on.
I have no beef with the political aspects of the article, and am an upvoter ;)