#centralization — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #centralization, aggregated by home.social.
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Vladimir Moskovkin proposes an interesting "reform model for scholarly communication that combines elements of centralized access —based on adapting the Soviet VINITI experience to the digital environment— with decentralized Diamond Open Access platforms."
PS: This is the first time I've seen anyone draw the Soviet #VINITI model into #OpenAccess / #ScholComm discussions.
Here's some background on the model, if it's new to you.
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Vladimir Moskovkin proposes an interesting "reform model for scholarly communication that combines elements of centralized access —based on adapting the Soviet VINITI experience to the digital environment— with decentralized Diamond Open Access platforms."
PS: This is the first time I've seen anyone draw the Soviet #VINITI model into #OpenAccess / #ScholComm discussions.
Here's some background on the model, if it's new to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINITI -
@MXC48 The main downside of the Signal messenger is centralization. #centralization
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I'm an active user of @signalapp and I love their service, but there is one thing that concerns me sometimes.
Their leadership.
Katherine Maher, board member of Signal, started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change and cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used US technologies to advance the interests of US.-supported Color Revolutions abroad. Concerning much?
https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem
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I'm an active user of @signalapp and I love their service, but there is one thing that concerns me sometimes.
Their leadership.
Katherine Maher, board member of Signal, started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change and cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used US technologies to advance the interests of US.-supported Color Revolutions abroad. Concerning much?
https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem
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Okay, so, with my decade+ of experience of being on social media, I've noticed a trend within recent years about pretty much all social platforms. I think there's a critical mass of users on a platform where it becomes impossible to properly enforce. Inevitably, there will be a sheer volume of bad actors that no matter what the platform does, cannot stop completely and it becomes public knowledge/source of scrutiny.
There isn't a single large platform I can name that doesn't have the problem of toxic behavior, child abuse/exploitation, NSFW rings, (the kind that aren't tagged/gated properly) etc. Doesn't matter what their moderation policies/enforcement is. It doesn't matter if a platform like #Discord files millions of NCMEC reports or bans millions of accounts a year. There's simply too many malicious users to handle and it's impossible to prevent them from coming back in some form or another or new ones joining the platform.
Sure, if you have say, 10,000 users, that's way easier for a small team of mods to handle, but what about 1 million? 10 million? 100+ million? There's no way a company/organization can afford a team to handle that sheer volume of communication and interaction, and we all know automated systems are deeply flawed and clearly do not stop the problem. Inevitably, a larger and larger number of bad actors slip through the cracks. Those cracks widen as more users join and moderation systems become increasingly strained. Regarding the NCMEC bit, Discord alone files over 500,000 reports, do you seriously think the NCMEC has the resources to look into every report and do something about it? Obviously not. And that's just Discord.
It's a huge reason why punitive actions don't work well, nor things like telling parents to monitor their kids. There's simply too many to keep track of all at once, and it's why I stress the importance of educational methods when it comes to protecting people. Education is a form of preventative measure instead of all the reactive ones we see on these platforms. Teaching a kid why this kind of content is harmful, how to avoid it, what to do if they do come across it, how to not get sucked into it or become a bad actor themself, etc will do way more than just a losing arms race of updating moderation systems and filters. It better addresses the cause rather than just the symptom.
All of this is simply the consequence of mass-centralization and the network effect on steroids. It's easier than ever before to connect with so many people and the possibility for interaction-- good or bad exponentially increases. Until eventually, it becomes unsustainable and causes huge swaths of harm.
#Essay #LongPost #Ramblings #SocialMedia #Commentary #Centralization #Reddit #Tumblr #YouTube #Roblox #Twitter #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok
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Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) calculates how centralized a protocol has become by adding the squares of providers' usage share percentages.
- Fediverse is 748 by instance or 3952 by server software, and ATmosphere is 9684
- Web hosting is 744, and Git hosting is 9224
It shows how much Bluesky dominates ATproto and GitHub dominates public Git.
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/#decentralization #centralization #HerfindahlHirschman #HHI #fediverse #atproto #Git #GitHub
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Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) calculates how centralized a protocol has become by adding the squares of providers' usage share percentages.
- Fediverse is 748 by instance or 3952 by server software, and ATmosphere is 9684
- Web hosting is 744, and Git hosting is 9224
It shows how much Bluesky dominates ATproto and GitHub dominates public Git.
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/#decentralization #centralization #HerfindahlHirschman #HHI #fediverse #atproto #Git #GitHub
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Guerre, victoire et verticalité cumulative : de la formation de l’État aux hiérarchies durables
Les études réunies ici convergent : la guerre ne produit pas seulement des États plus capables, elle sélectionne des trajectoires de centralisation, de légitimation et d’asymétrie centre/périphérie qui se stabilisent dans la durée. #war #state #centralization #centerPeriphery #politics #geopolitics Ces travaux (voir sources principales, ci dessous) dessinent une même…
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Guerre, victoire et verticalité cumulative : de la formation de l’État aux hiérarchies durables
Les études réunies ici convergent : la guerre ne produit pas seulement des États plus capables, elle sélectionne des trajectoires de centralisation, de légitimation et d’asymétrie centre/périphérie qui se stabilisent dans la durée. #war #state #centralization #centerPeriphery #politics #geopolitics Ces travaux (voir sources principales, ci dessous) dessinent une même…
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Guerre, centralisation et inégalités internes dans le Saint-Empire
L'étude de Cantoni (2025) montre que la guerre pousse les territoires du Saint-Empire à se centraliser fiscalement, à investir davantage dans l’administration et l’armée, et à survivre plus longtemps — mais au prix d’un renforcement durable du centre au détriment de la périphérie. #centralization #war #history #geopolitics #politics Cette étude revient sur un problème classique de sociologie historique…
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Guerre, centralisation et inégalités internes dans le Saint-Empire
L'étude de Cantoni (2025) montre que la guerre pousse les territoires du Saint-Empire à se centraliser fiscalement, à investir davantage dans l’administration et l’armée, et à survivre plus longtemps — mais au prix d’un renforcement durable du centre au détriment de la périphérie. #centralization #war #history #geopolitics #politics Cette étude revient sur un problème classique de sociologie historique…
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Irrigation, pouvoir et despotisme : ce que Claessen conteste chez Wittfogel
H. J. M. Claessen (1973) montre que l’irrigation ne produit pas mécaniquement le despotisme : les grands travaux hydrauliques peuvent renforcer un pouvoir déjà centralisé, mais ils n’en sont pas la cause unique. #waterManagement #hydraulicInfrastructure #centralization #state #anthropology #power Dans “Despotism and Irrigation”, H. J. M. Claessen discute la thèse célèbre de Karl Wittfogel selon…
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Irrigation, pouvoir et despotisme : ce que Claessen conteste chez Wittfogel
H. J. M. Claessen (1973) montre que l’irrigation ne produit pas mécaniquement le despotisme : les grands travaux hydrauliques peuvent renforcer un pouvoir déjà centralisé, mais ils n’en sont pas la cause unique. #waterManagement #hydraulicInfrastructure #centralization #state #anthropology #power Dans “Despotism and Irrigation”, H. J. M. Claessen discute la thèse célèbre de Karl Wittfogel selon…
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Quand la guerre fragilise l’État : bureaucratie, militarisation et fragmentation dans la Chine des Cinq Dynasties
Une étude récente (Li Li, 2024) nuance fortement la thèse classique selon laquelle la guerre fabrique automatiquement des États plus forts : dans la Chine des Cinq Dynasties et Dix Royaumes, elle a souvent nourri la fragmentation plutôt que la centralisation. #war #state #China #centralization #fragmentation #history #politicalPhilosophy L’étude examine le…
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Quand la guerre fragilise l’État : bureaucratie, militarisation et fragmentation dans la Chine des Cinq Dynasties
Une étude récente (Li Li, 2024) nuance fortement la thèse classique selon laquelle la guerre fabrique automatiquement des États plus forts : dans la Chine des Cinq Dynasties et Dix Royaumes, elle a souvent nourri la fragmentation plutôt que la centralisation. #war #state #China #centralization #fragmentation #history #politicalPhilosophy L’étude examine le…
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Guerre, bureaucratie et formation de l’État dans la Chine pré-impériale
Chen montre que la guerre n’a pas un effet unique sur l’État : la défense encourage la décentralisation, tandis que l’offensive favorise la centralisation bureaucratique. #strategy #state #geopolitics #war #centralization #decentralization L’étude de Joy Chen propose une lecture nuancée du lien entre guerre et formation de l’État dans la Chine pré-impériale. Son idée centrale est simple mais…
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Guerre, bureaucratie et formation de l’État dans la Chine pré-impériale
Chen montre que la guerre n’a pas un effet unique sur l’État : la défense encourage la décentralisation, tandis que l’offensive favorise la centralisation bureaucratique. #strategy #state #geopolitics #war #centralization #decentralization L’étude de Joy Chen propose une lecture nuancée du lien entre guerre et formation de l’État dans la Chine pré-impériale. Son idée centrale est simple mais…
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There are certainly issues. I wrote a long thought piece on social experience and travels in #ActivityPub space and with a call-for-reflection to anyone to ponder #fediverse's Future of #SocialNetworking..
The blog post (which is an hour-long read) also stipulates re-centralization risks, and how a #fedi-native protocol implementation of #GrassrootsStandards and #GrassrootsStandardization processes like the #FEP and #SocialCG can help mitigate the #centralization risks.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
PS. See also my call-to-participate as #CommonsCustodian in the #standardization of our networking protocols..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116402592862958767
Together we can :boosts_appreciated: #BoostFediForwards and #cocreate a better #future.
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There are certainly issues. I wrote a long thought piece on social experience and travels in #ActivityPub space and with a call-for-reflection to anyone to ponder #fediverse's Future of #SocialNetworking..
The blog post (which is an hour-long read) also stipulates re-centralization risks, and how a #fedi-native protocol implementation of #GrassrootsStandards and #GrassrootsStandardization processes like the #FEP and #SocialCG can help mitigate the #centralization risks.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
PS. See also my call-to-participate as #CommonsCustodian in the #standardization of our networking protocols..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116402592862958767
Together we can :boosts_appreciated: #BoostFediForwards and #cocreate a better #future.
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The Case of Alsace: A Quest for Identity
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
App-centrism is a re-centralization force in the #ActivityPub fediverse.
For the #fediverse the accepted app-centric #SocialNetwork work method is a decentralized NPM-like dependency hell waiting to happen.
Apps that introduce extensions become owners of parts of the specs when they become de-facto standards. We can only hope for responsible #ownership, and that the project stays around to keep their #design docs and code in the air.
The #FEP and the #SocialCG are two points of #centralization we find acceptable to help mitigate protocol decay and tech debt. It is not ideal, but a bandaid to keep an utterly fragmented developer ecosystem together.
The people who do most of this holding together are volunteers that can be counted on one hand. They may burnout and leave any day, in typical #FOSS fashion.
#SX investigates the concept of #GrassrootsOpenStandards, where the standardization process matches social dynamics that exist in our #commons.
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
App-centrism is a re-centralization force in the #ActivityPub fediverse.
For the #fediverse the accepted app-centric #SocialNetwork work method is a decentralized NPM-like dependency hell waiting to happen.
Apps that introduce extensions become owners of parts of the specs when they become de-facto standards. We can only hope for responsible #ownership, and that the project stays around to keep their #design docs and code in the air.
The #FEP and the #SocialCG are two points of #centralization we find acceptable to help mitigate protocol decay and tech debt. It is not ideal, but a bandaid to keep an utterly fragmented developer ecosystem together.
The people who do most of this holding together are volunteers that can be counted on one hand. They may burnout and leave any day, in typical #FOSS fashion.
#SX investigates the concept of #GrassrootsOpenStandards, where the standardization process matches social dynamics that exist in our #commons.
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After the SPD's loss in Baden‑Württemberg's election, former federal MP Robin Mesarosch launched an unflattering attack on his own party. He warns that the mant... https://news.osna.fm/?p=37959 | #news #accuses #after #centralization #closedness
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[en] Cloud outages: "#Concentration is the real risk" - Prof Doug #Jacobson
For example, #DNS ... has quietly become a single point of failure ... DNS is not alone.
#Cloud outages are getting more #expensive. "#Centralization magnifies these costs."
"... concentration means that a single configuration error, routing issue or attack can ripple across much of the web."
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Austrailia's early 2000s experiment with a #SharedServices organization is super interesting.
Super impressed that they actually checked that their #centralization effort was delivering on it's claims.... and it wasn't.
The original business case was "fundamentally flawed" and has "resulted in a total cost to the State of $473 million" instead of the expected savings of $68 million/year.
* 91 per cent of sampled agencies comment that service delivery has deteriorated upon transitioning to shared
services.
* Over 80 per cent of the sampled agencies reported that processing timeframes have worsened
* rolling-in to the DTFSSC has had a detrimental impact on the operations of the majority of rolled-in agencies"The Authority concludes that the current structure of the DTFSSC is problematic. It is a monopoly provider, with a mandated client base and a lack of meaningful service level agreements. This means that there are minimal incentives for DTFSSC to improve service delivery and few ways in which client agencies can hold DTFSSC accountable"
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Austrailia's early 2000s experiment with a #SharedServices organization is super interesting.
Super impressed that they actually checked that their #centralization effort was delivering on it's claims.... and it wasn't.
The original business case was "fundamentally flawed" and has "resulted in a total cost to the State of $473 million" instead of the expected savings of $68 million/year.
* 91 per cent of sampled agencies comment that service delivery has deteriorated upon transitioning to shared
services.
* Over 80 per cent of the sampled agencies reported that processing timeframes have worsened
* rolling-in to the DTFSSC has had a detrimental impact on the operations of the majority of rolled-in agencies"The Authority concludes that the current structure of the DTFSSC is problematic. It is a monopoly provider, with a mandated client base and a lack of meaningful service level agreements. This means that there are minimal incentives for DTFSSC to improve service delivery and few ways in which client agencies can hold DTFSSC accountable"
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"#Mastodon’s current leadership is trying to move away from [#centralization at Mastodon.social].
In this newer model, the server boundary becomes a social boundary, and your experience of Mastodon is supposed to be shaped by the community you joined rather than just by who you follow across the wider network.
Instead of one network with distributed infrastructure, it is a network of networks where each node has meaningful social coherence. #Newsmast, a UK-based organization building ActivityPub infrastructure for publishers and communities, is pushing this further by creating branded apps on top of individual server #communities that combine #community feeds with a publisher’s content. The logical conclusion of their approach is one app per community, with federation as the connective tissue between them."
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"#Mastodon’s current leadership is trying to move away from [#centralization at Mastodon.social].
In this newer model, the server boundary becomes a social boundary, and your experience of Mastodon is supposed to be shaped by the community you joined rather than just by who you follow across the wider network.
Instead of one network with distributed infrastructure, it is a network of networks where each node has meaningful social coherence. #Newsmast, a UK-based organization building ActivityPub infrastructure for publishers and communities, is pushing this further by creating branded apps on top of individual server #communities that combine #community feeds with a publisher’s content. The logical conclusion of their approach is one app per community, with federation as the connective tissue between them."
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Bettina Gyak, the state commissioner for data protection and freedom of information in North‑Rhineland‑Westphalia, has publicly opposed plans to abolish her off... https://news.osna.fm/?p=33548 | #news #centralization #chief #complaints #dataleak
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GitHub is unusable without account. This is what you get by simply browsing to a repository on GitHub and clicking on the link to view the commits.
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GitHub is unusable without account. This is what you get by simply browsing to a repository on GitHub and clicking on the link to view the commits.
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At one point in time, I might have wanted to make my own social media site, but I'm done with #centralization in social media, and the engagement circus it attracts.
This note is sponsored by the smut I saw on #bluesky for hashtag 'hardcore' and hashtag 'onesie'.
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A second Cloudflare outage in weeks briefly broke major services like LinkedIn, Zoom, and Canva, exposing how fragile our centralized internet infrastructure is. A faulty firewall update not a cyberattack triggered the disruption, raising concerns about reliability, dependence on tech giants, and the risks of single points of failure.
#Cloudflare #InternetOutage #TechFailure #WebInfrastructure #Centralization
Read Full Article: https://www.techi.com/cloudflare-outage-internet-fragile-infrastructure/
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I got quoted in The Guardian again, I guess CloudFlare must have been down or something? :blobcatcoffee:
> “These companies have become too big to not fail. And because they handle so much traffic, when they do fail, this immediately becomes a massive problem”
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I got quoted in The Guardian again, I guess CloudFlare must have been down or something? :blobcatcoffee:
> “These companies have become too big to not fail. And because they handle so much traffic, when they do fail, this immediately becomes a massive problem”
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RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/115587663680180965
Having switched from mastodon.social to a smaller instance, I emphatically encourage everyone to do the same. It's easy. And apart from decentralization, it has even more advantages:
1) If you pick an instance centered on what interests you, the Local Timeline of your new home becomes actually useful (whereas that of mastodon.social is a largely useless hodgepodge).
2) All your current followers will automatically follow your new account. In fact, chances are you'll even gain some new followers, since everyone whom you yourself follow will get a new notification and may decide to follow you back this time. (This obviously shouldn't be your primary motivation, but it does sweeten the deal.)
#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial #decentralization #centralization
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🌿 The Trump Effect on Digital Resilience in the Global Majority
https://digitalresilience.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DRN_Pulse_2025_Public.pdf
The Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience (DRN) is pleased to share a new report titled Pulse 2025, The Trump Effect on Digital Resilience in the Global Majority. This brief explores the most recent changes in the ecosystem and analyzes the evolution of the geopolitical, technological, and activism trends presented previously in the Scanning the Horizon (2024) report, from a Global Majority perspective.
#geopolitical #centralization #activism #humanrights #globalmajority
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🌿 The Trump Effect on Digital Resilience in the Global Majority
https://digitalresilience.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DRN_Pulse_2025_Public.pdf
The Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience (DRN) is pleased to share a new report titled Pulse 2025, The Trump Effect on Digital Resilience in the Global Majority. This brief explores the most recent changes in the ecosystem and analyzes the evolution of the geopolitical, technological, and activism trends presented previously in the Scanning the Horizon (2024) report, from a Global Majority perspective.
#geopolitical #centralization #activism #humanrights #globalmajority
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Congratulations if you didn't notice Cloudflare's outage; unless you're Elon Musk, then shame on you!
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1369-1cc5-985c-f5e186258408
