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History and the trends suggest that we are moving to more centralized and controled systems. Prior to social media, a mere 10-15 years ago, there were far more
by beached_whale 6y ago
History and the trends suggest that we are moving to more centralized and controled systems. Prior to social media, a mere 10-15 years ago, there were far more blogs and self hosted sites in proportion.
- betwixthewires 6y agoBut there's no reason to believe this is unidirectional and self reinforcing. There are plenty of trends that went on long enough that whole generations were born with them as the status quo, only for them to be reversed or changed. Feudalism went on for hundreds of years.
- beached_whale 6y agoThere are financial large incentives to centralize though. That needs to change, look at the infra that is hosted on the cloud and what depends on that.