The problem with anything, anything, without a centralized authority, is that friction overwhelms inertia. Bad actors exist and have no mercy, while good people downplay them until it’s too late. Entropy always wins. Misguided people assume the problem is powerful people, when the problem is actually what the powerful people use their authority to do, as powerful people will always exist. Accepting that and maintaining oversight is the historically successful norm; abolishing them has always failed.
As such, I don’t identify with the author of this post, about trying to resist CloudFlare for moral reasons. A decentralized system where everyone plays nice and mostly cooperates, does not exist any more than a country without a government where everyone plays nice and mostly cooperates. It’s wishful thinking. We already tried this with Email, and we’re back to gatekeepers. Pretending the web will be different is ahistorical.
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