On 26-07-13 16:15, hellekin wrote: > On 07/26/2013 05:10 AM, Mikael "MMN-o" Nordfeldth wrote: >> First of all, I have to say I very much enjoyed this >> resume-kind-of-post. Kudos for doing it! > > *** Thank you Mikael! That's an encouraging feedforth! I wholly > agree with all you wrote. > > >> Personally I can't see why people didn't just start federating away >> from identi.ca long ago. Using a federated software without >> actually using federation only results in centralisation. > > *** The same thing happened with N-1.cc, where the population grew and > the support not, making it unsustainable if it wouldn't be for crazy > people who still prefer cooperating. When the migration from 1.7 to > 1.8 happened, the disruption was terrible. We're still in turmoil, > although the "population" kept growing, but support didn't start > matching the basic costs. > > I don't have an answer on the "why such things happen", but I can > relate it to the past couple of decades of propaganda selling > everything "for free" (gratis), at the expense of plundering the > resources of the Earth, slave labor, and social dumping. (more > specifically driving the smaller competition out of the game by the > use of massive economies of scale, slave labor, and systematic buy > outs, hereby reinforcing the phagocyte behavior).
You should read Binding Chaos by Heather Marsh.... Plenty of answers there. http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/ > The Internet suffered this trend as much as the rest of society, > leading consumers to believe it comes "for free" as infrastructure. I > wish it were infrastructure as part of public funding, with net > neutrality built in. But the colonization of the minds around the > idea that profit leads to growth and growth leads to happiness is > terribly ignorant of the complexity of the ecosystem's cycles. I wrote about it on the libtech list in: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-July/010335.html It was about the high price of centralised server systems compared to geographical caching. Regards, Guido.
