@aral I agree! I apologize if I came across like a bucket of cold water. But, centralization comes arrives along unexpected vectors. BTC for example seems conceptually decentralized, but things like ownership of mining, the very restricted community with source commit rights etc.
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jstogdill 🙊 (jstogdill@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 05:31:19 JST jstogdill 🙊 @aral I’m not completely clear on what you are working on, but as soon as I saw “dns sub domains” in the description I saw 🚩’s
Who ever owns those top domains holds a position at the top of a hierarchy.
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jstogdill 🙊 (jstogdill@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:38:31 JST jstogdill 🙊 @aral I appreciate what you are doing. I really do. But thirty years of history have taught me to be skeptical of claims for decentralization. The math usually doesn’t work.
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jstogdill 🙊 (jstogdill@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:30:45 JST jstogdill 🙊 @aral Idealized free scaling systems are flat and decentralized. Free scaling systems in the real world almost always exhibit emergent hierarchy. 🤷🏻♂️