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Are we decentralized yet?

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487 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.454s | source
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Animats ◴[30 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45077547[source]▶
Keep the needle pointing north. Towards the center of that dial.

Too decentralized, and you can't find anything. Nobody uses it.

Too centralized, and censorship takes over. Nobody can speak freely.

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treyd ◴[30 Aug 25 20:13 UTC] No.45077646[source]▶
You're presupposing that discoverability requires some degree of centralization.
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Animats ◴[30 Aug 25 20:34 UTC] No.45077785[source]▶
We haven't seen a distributed Google yet.

It's not impossible, but each distributed component would have to be at least a small data center.

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1. fsflover ◴[30 Aug 25 21:28 UTC] No.45078162[source]▶
> We haven't seen a distributed Google

https://yacy.net

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2. Animats ◴[31 Aug 25 00:04 UTC] No.45079118[source]▶
You can index your own stuff and propagate that index to others. This is what people would have thought good when Gopher was a thing.