Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Here's alengthy piece from Alyssa Rosenzweig on preserving freedom despite theinevitable centralization of successful information services."Indeed, it seems all networked systems tend towards centralisationas the natural consequence of growth. Some systems, both legitimate andillegitimate, are intentionally designed for centralisation. Other systems,like those in the Mastodon universe, are specifically designed to avoidcentralisation, but even these succumb to the centralised black hole astheir user bases grow towards the event horizon."