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Incentives that have caused the centralization of the Internet

First published December 21, 2024.

• Returns to scale for running servers. Amazon/Microsoft/Facebook/Google/etc. are all much, much more efficient at running servers than smaller entities are.
• Nobody’s figured out how to make it easy for nontechnical or even semitechnical people to share their thoughts with only a select few chosen people without a central service handling authorization and permissions. As intrusive as Facebook can be, sharing photos there is a lot less public than putting them on a website that anyone or anything can access.
• Kamal might be great for ONCE, but whoever administers the thing still needs to know how to back up MySQL data and possibly restore it, as well as deal with unattended-upgrades.

=> Kamal | wiki.debian.org, “UnattendedUpgrades”

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