Trying to put together a few slides about "data sovereignty" -- or, more generally, legal and social and ethical concerns of distributed systems (especially when they get ever larger).
Does anyone have readings or data to suggest?
E.g. I'd be especially interested in illustrating the historical decline of e.g. in-house or ISP-provided services, and the rise of the hyperscaler-backed equivalents e.g. Gmail / Office 365 / ...
@stephenrkell
@rwg has a nice article on the mail decline: https://fossacademic.tech/2023/11/10/HowUniversitiesLostIT.html
Others argue similar things about DNS servers having originally been built as research, maybe @nlnetlabs or @ripencc have an idea. Also @irtf or @bert_hubert or @turris might know documented cases of products that grew out of public (state) sovereignty.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/
Yet sometimes into community ownership as coop commons-public partnership #CCPP @IndieHosters
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/THRG3E-la_suite_coop_model_for_digital_commons/
via @khinsen
Stephen Kell
jon r