Less than 20 companies actually own more than 80% of the internet capacity, which is the storage and the compute. Stop metaversing. Decentralize physical infrastructure.
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Replying to @LucaVJ85 @interfluidity
Everyone's always rediscovering Zipf's law! It would be weird if it were not the case
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left alone, things often tend to statistical distributions which suggest that things oughtn't be left alone. it's easy to make these quasiphysical apologies for wealth and income distribution. "natural" in this sense is not normative.
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Replying to @interfluidity @LucaVJ85
Left alone, internet infrastructure will tend to monopoly, which is bad. But it's also silly to imagine an internet where mom-and-pop ISP's lay transpacific cable or operate cloud datacenters. A situation where 20 companies own 80% of the infrastructure sounds perfectly sensible
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The thing I would fight against is mergers or local monopolies among the 20. But if overcentralization is the drum to beat, I don't think hardware is the part to focus on
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