> Not if the switching cost is high and/or slow. The problems of a monarchy will not be solved by setting up a competing neighboring kingdom.
That was how the US grew between 1700 and 1914. Everyone in Europe sick of monarchies just moved out to the new world.
When there isn't a finite amount of land to squat it becomes a viable long term solution.
The U.S. isn’t (and wasn’t) a kingdom.
Re:Centralization Is Inevitable
by anonporridge on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:17PM
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> Not if the switching cost is high and/or slow.
This seems to be one of the key goals of Jack Dorsey's bluesky over Mastadon. Mastadon apparently has a lot of friction when trying to switch servers, even though it's a federated protocol. Bluesky claims to want make it much more trivial to take your identity to any provider on the federated network.
Re:Centralization Is Inevitable
by Ericson2314 on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:13AM
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I bring up open protocols because I think they is necessary, if not sufficient, to keep the switching costs low.
To bring the topic back to networking, it has been said that decentralization is the worst form of networking except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
(With apologies to Winston Churchill.)