> It's been the case for at least 15 years that app developers couldn't rely on their users being on the internet. It's annoying, and I agree with you has a chi

> It's been the case for at least 15 years that app developers couldn't rely on their users being on the internet. It's annoying, and I agree with you has a chilling effect on less-centralized applications, but doesn't rise to the level of "Disaster." My point is, it does. It is not an "end of the wolrd" disaster, but it is an Orwellian one. We're only beginning to realise the insanity behind centralised services such as Gmail. I personally suspected those dangers for a long time, (as did the FSF, the EFF, and many others). Edward Snowden only confirmed some of our worst fears. That said, the lack of public IP is only half of the catastrophe. The other half is asymmetric bandwidth.