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by no_identd 2461 days ago
Oh for crying out loud. No, we need UNcentralizable communication, as to avert undecentralization/recentralization.

Federation=bad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687

Unfortunately, any communication protocol which mathematically always reduces to ye olde beads-on-a-string with enough extra steps to hide this even from most experts makes this fundamentally impossible… — …and both IP 4 and IPv6 fall into that category, despite their very name implying otherwise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467

Two brief quotes from over there:

"[…]

This does not mean that we should be doing OSI. Good grief, no. …

[…]

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[22] Someone will ask, What about IPv6? It does nothing for these problems but make them worse and the problem it does solve is not a problem.

[…]"