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I wish more protocols were built with such robustness and decenteralization in mind. If you try to host a web site at home and it gains some attention among netizens, you might have a bad day. Not because your connection is dog slow, but because all those people will complain about the way you host.

The internet is too darn centeralized, people can't just put services out there.



I often feel the same about how centralized the 'net has become. Two issues that seem to make it worse:

1. ISPs providing asymmetric service (and it's been getting worse, it used to be 10:1 dl:ul, but when I upgraded speed last year it grew to 20:1).

2. Why do we have a plethora of centralized services, when ideally a smart firmware in your home router can handle pages like about.me or simple blogs.




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