#centralization — Public Fediverse posts

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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.

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.

#activitypub #fediverse #socialnetworking #fedi #grassrootsstandards #grassrootsstandardization

🫧 socialcoding.. @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 22:21 UTC

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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.

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.

#activitypub #fediverse #socialnetworking #fedi #grassrootsstandards #grassrootsstandardization

🫧 socialcoding.. @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 22:21 UTC

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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.

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.

#fep #socialcg #commonscustodian #standardization #boostfediforwards #cocreate

🫧 socialcoding.. @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 22:21 UTC

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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.

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.

#future #cocreate #boostfediforwards #standardization #commonscustodian #socialcg

🫧 socialcoding.. @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 22:21 UTC

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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.

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.

https://theconversation.com/why-cloud-service-outages-ripple-across-the-internet-and-the-economy-272241

#fep #socialcg #commonscustodian #standardization #boostfediforwards #cocreate

People @[email protected] · 2026-04-06 · 00:22 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/people/11704/ Elon Musk Humiliates Von der Leyen over EU Democracy #BalázsOrbán #centralization #DemocraticDeficit #ElonMusk #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanDemocracyShield #EuropeanUnion #Hungary #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #USAID #X

#x #usaid #ursulavonderleyen #hungary #europeanunion #europeandemocracyshield

🫧 socialcoding.. @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 07:54 UTC

#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.

#thoughtprovoker #activitypub #fediverse #socialnetwork #ownership #design

Research Network Digi-Oek.ch @[email protected] · 2026-03-11 · 18:39 UTC

[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."

#cybersecurity #spof #outage #crowdstrike #iastate

#concentration #jacobson #dns #cloud #expensive #centralization

Research Network Digi-Oek.ch @[email protected] · 2026-03-11 · 18:39 UTC

[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."

https://theconversation.com/why-cloud-service-outages-ripple-across-the-internet-and-the-economy-272241

#cybersecurity #spof #outage #crowdstrike #iastate

#iastate #crowdstrike #outage #spof #cybersecurity #centralization

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 14:04 UTC

#Centralization is the only idea in government

#centralization

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 13:34 UTC

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"

https://www.erawa.com.au/sites/default/files/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Benefits%20and%20Costs%20Associated%20with%20the%20Provision%20of%20Shared%20Corporate%20Services%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20-%2010%20June%202011.PDF

#centralization #gcdigital #sharedservices

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 13:34 UTC

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"

https://www.erawa.com.au/sites/default/files/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Benefits%20and%20Costs%20Associated%20with%20the%20Provision%20of%20Shared%20Corporate%20Services%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20-%2010%20June%202011.PDF

#centralization #gcdigital #sharedservices

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 13:34 UTC

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"

https://www.erawa.com.au/sites/default/files/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Benefits%20and%20Costs%20Associated%20with%20the%20Provision%20of%20Shared%20Corporate%20Services%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20-%2010%20June%202011.PDF

#centralization #gcdigital #sharedservices

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 13:34 UTC

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"

https://www.erawa.com.au/sites/default/files/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Benefits%20and%20Costs%20Associated%20with%20the%20Provision%20of%20Shared%20Corporate%20Services%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20-%2010%20June%202011.PDF

#sharedservices #gcdigital #centralization

Mike Williamson @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 13:34 UTC

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"

https://www.erawa.com.au/sites/default/files/Final%20Report%20-%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Benefits%20and%20Costs%20Associated%20with%20the%20Provision%20of%20Shared%20Corporate%20Services%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20-%2010%20June%202011.PDF

#centralization #gcdigital #sharedservices

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲 @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 23:19 UTC

I remember building a Geocities page. Talking to people on ICQ. Forums and other great things.

Then everything went bland and no one hears me.

The Rise and Fall of the Free Internet

00:00 – Intro: The Free Internet 05:43 – The Google Revolution 09:13 – The Social Takeover 11:33 – The Age of Centralization 14:33 – Remembering FreedomA...

#internet #centralization #onlinehistory

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲 @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 23:19 UTC

I remember building a Geocities page. Talking to people on ICQ. Forums and other great things.

Then everything went bland and no one hears me.

The Rise and Fall of the Free Internet

00:00 – Intro: The Free Internet 05:43 – The Google Revolution 09:13 – The Social Takeover 11:33 – The Age of Centralization 14:33 – Remembering FreedomA...

#internet #centralization #onlinehistory

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲 @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 23:19 UTC

I remember building a Geocities page. Talking to people on ICQ. Forums and other great things.

Then everything went bland and no one hears me.

The Rise and Fall of the Free Internet

00:00 – Intro: The Free Internet 05:43 – The Google Revolution 09:13 – The Social Takeover 11:33 – The Age of Centralization 14:33 – Remembering FreedomA...

#internet #centralization #onlinehistory

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲 @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 23:19 UTC

I remember building a Geocities page. Talking to people on ICQ. Forums and other great things.

Then everything went bland and no one hears me.

The Rise and Fall of the Free Internet