[catlikesshrimp]

I love the internet as it is today (facebook and google aside) the system is reliable enough for us. But the discussion is about centralization. This is not about infrastructure.

The day facebook was down for a few hours, I was asked why the internet was down. That person uses the internet for fb and whatsapp (also fb) A decentralized communication protocol and a federated social network wouldn't fail completely under the same circumstances.

[Gigachad]

I think that's more a statement about how reliable the current system is where users think their network is down rather than facebook which would be unthinkable.

[meltedcapacitor]

Facebook could also run federated technically, so that it never fails all at once. It failed because they put all the eggs in one basket in some top layer.

Technical decentralization is orthogonal to commercial issues.

[immibis]

If it was federated it wouldn't be Facebook, it would be Mastodon.

If it was federated and Facebook still controlled it, it would still be centralized.