/tech/ - Technology

How did this strange event occur?

I assume it was do to cost cutting and shitty management, under socialism this will not happen
Also, what do you preffer, decentralize random websites/providers going down or one sudden accident of the big provider?

Web infrastructure makes sense to decentralize, but other things do not.

Socialism isn't when everything is centralized, it's when things that would be more efficient centralized are, i.e. trains and trams instead of trucks and semi-trucks, planning instead of markets, etc… What those things are depend on the thing in question.

>>31741
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>>31740
>Also, what do you preffer, decentralize random websites/providers going down or one sudden accident of the big provider?
The former is quite prefferable, yeah.

>>31738
>How do socialists answer to this?
Not giving private individuals the means to ddos thousands of small to medium sites. Clownflare very transparently runs a racket.

>>31738
Everything from space travel to bus schedules to tootbrushes will be handled by the central planning organ of socialism, and you will like it

>>31744
>Not giving private individuals the means to ddos thousands of small to medium sites
I'm interested. How would this actually work? botnets used in ddos attacks are pretty much already illegal.

>>31746
no more Windows

>>31747
Humanity has evolved past the need for Windows.



<Linux boxes get compromised and dragged into botnets all the time

>centralization is le bad support le small services
painfully middle class thread

>>31750
We just had a proof that in some cases centralization can fuck things up royally by introducing an unnecessary points of failure. Where half of the internet went down thanks to some inters vibecoding.

>>31750
Please actually learn how web infrastructure works instead of trying to figure the world through memes.

>>31750
The Internet already is very centralized or federated among a moderate number of backbone providers, depending on how you see the role of organizations like ICANN or the IETF.

Cowerflare primarily acts as a CDN and DDOS protection. The former means users access a cached version of the site on servers geographically closer to their location. Both are accomplished by configuring hosts to essentially hook into an overlay network, that is accessed through a number of local, DDOS-resistant Cloudflay servers. Consequently they control the sites DNS record, any TLS certificates for https, as well as any traffic between the site and other Internet hosts.

This is why some people call it an MITM. It's also far from an essential service. As you might know other forms of DDOS protection exist, but Cloudfer often presents itself as the path of least resistance.

tl;dr >>31753

>>31750
> central planning is the same as central infrastructure.

Absolute braindead take, bravo

socialism doesn't require things be centralized, and communication (including the internet) should be free and decentralized

>>31738
>>31753
>>31757
>whats le socialist solution to irrelevant nerd shit?
communism has nothing to do with fucking web infrastructure buds, stop pretending its about alleviating every little fucking problem of capitalism

>>31762
nah

>>31768
lmfao complaining about le monopolies is 100% petit bourgeois shit i mean look at this shit bruh >>31823

>>31750
Only good post

finally i realized the real nature of the so called "decentralized" fediverse. it is a total scam!

>>32178
The Pseudo-Decentralization of Mastodon – Just Another Illusion

Mastodon and the broader Fediverse are frequently sold as the holy grail of “real” decentralization – in contrast to evil centralized platforms. In reality, this is mostly marketing.The largest instances (mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mas.to) are all controlled by the same legal entity: the Mastodon gGmbH / corporation, led by Eugen Rochko. Two or three of the biggest nodes = one single boss. That’s not decentralization; that’s just a slightly distributed company structure.Sure, right-wing instances like Truth Social exist (or Gab, or others). But they rarely federate meaningfully with the big leftist-leaning main instances. In practice you get two (or three) almost completely separate, ideologically closed networks that only talk to their political allies. That’s not open federation – that’s allied dictatorships communicating with each other.At the end of the day every single instance is still a miniature centralized dictatorship with an owner who can ban, defederate, censor, or simply shut down the server whenever they feel like it. Mastodon.social, Truth Social, Reddit, X – structurally they are the same thing: one admin, one set of rules, one kill switch.The Fediverse is “decentralized” in exactly the same sense that Reddit, X and 4chan are decentralized: you can choose which dictator you want to live under. That’s the whole difference.

>>32179
we have to retvrn to OStatus/GNU Social