An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world

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    1 year ago

    It’s the fear of centralization, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong!).

    Seeing that the whole point of federation is to decentralize the web, putting everything under the Cloudflare umbrella goes against this philosophy.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The federation philosophy is not going to hold up when users centralize themselves on an instance, requiring that instance to seek out things like Cloudflare just to bare the weight.