[thehardsphere]

I'm sorry, but I disagree that we have an internet that isn't an internet.

Even though two particular problems affected a great many sites, they didn't affect every site or even a majority of sites. That's because we don't actually have a "handful of companies hosting everyone."

Maybe I'm not a typical user, but the only site that was affected by S3 that I use was HN. The only three sites affected by Cloudbleed that I use were HN, Discord, and another smaller site elsewhere. The rest of the internet worked perfectly fine for me.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the sites typical users were unaffected also. I mean, facebook didn’t go down, did it? People could still search on The Google. I don't know of anyone whose job was affected by this aside from people who run websites. Neither of these were as bad as the Dyn outage, which wasn't the apocalypse either.

I agree that over-centralization of the Internet to be concerned about actually creating, and it's definitely something you should consider before choosing services like Cloudfare and S3. But I don't think it's so bad today that the Internet isn't the Internet anymore.