It already is the fact. I mean, sure, some of the splinters are smaller, like Lemmy vs. Reddit, or BlueSky vs. Twitter, but they are still splintered and they will never reconcile.
These aren’t actual “splinters” though. These are just pissing matches between platforms. The idea of disconnecting a range of users from the internet (such as a country geo blocking another country) is quite a bit different, like if reddit was suddenly no longer available to lemmy users and vice versa.
I for one hope for the balkanization of the internet because while it will be extremely disruptive and kind of a nightmare it will potentially facilitate and popularize a replacement like ipfs, yggdrasil, or more federation to displace this corpo nightmare we’ve found ourselves in
It already is the fact. I mean, sure, some of the splinters are smaller, like Lemmy vs. Reddit, or BlueSky vs. Twitter, but they are still splintered and they will never reconcile.
These aren’t actual “splinters” though. These are just pissing matches between platforms. The idea of disconnecting a range of users from the internet (such as a country geo blocking another country) is quite a bit different, like if reddit was suddenly no longer available to lemmy users and vice versa.
I for one hope for the balkanization of the internet because while it will be extremely disruptive and kind of a nightmare it will potentially facilitate and popularize a replacement like ipfs, yggdrasil, or more federation to displace this corpo nightmare we’ve found ourselves in
Ham Radio Time? 🤔
Why not call it decentralization? Because that sounds like an actual good thing.
If get fediverse becomes big enough the network effect will make splintering an untenable position