Your timing is impeccable.
I just finished muttering to my long-suffering wife, "Remember when we designed the Internet to be distributed, so that this sort of thing wouldn't happen?"
It really is bloody frustrating to this ancient network engineer (pre-Internet).
Heh... I made a similar comment today to someone bitching about reddit being down. I suggested lemmy. The solution to a lot of problems is *right there*, but nobody's willing to sacrifice anything to make the future better.
Mastodon was probably first out of the gate for twitter refugees. Everyone said 'Fuck that shit. Gimme some more of that centralized corporate platform!'
It amazes me we progressed beyond fire...
Sorry, but I was there. I worked with the original X.25 networks in Australia for what was then Telecom Australia, working with government entities,universities, and IT companies like IBM.
The Internet was never supposed to be concentrated, especially in the hands of commercial entities whose only aim is profit.
The internet isn't just connections between computers.
Ah, gotcha. Agreed.
It was up there in the military establishment's thinking though. Their concern was systems of command and control, and they knew from the get-go that interconnection systems were vulnerable. Their focus was on hardening their computers as separated installations.
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