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  • I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.

    The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.

    “Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.

    The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS/IP Assignments, Service providers, and search.

    You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.

    If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.

    You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.