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It's amazing how the promise of "decentralized" internet has turned into centralized datacenters. P2P networks, each computer being a "data store" on the inter
by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
It's amazing how the promise of "decentralized" internet has turned into centralized datacenters.
P2P networks, each computer being a "data store" on the internet, no one entity can control data, etc to modern day centralized cloud where a couple of players control so much.
There has been a cultural shift. In the early 2000s, the idea of storing your data somewhere else would have been weird. But now, people don't care about keeping their data on apple/google/etcs data centers.
I think it has to do with the fact that computer/internet illiterate people are now the majority whereas in the 90s/early 2000s, it was generally the computer literate on the internet.
- kirykl 9y agoI was pretty befuddled when my company IT switched from self hosted storage to commercial cloud accounts for incredibly sensitive info. I think the reasoning was cloud accounts are easier for the masses than mapping a drive and accessing over VPN
- ams6110 9y agoAlso someone else to blame when the sensitive info is exposed.