Recently, I’ve been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.
I’ll second the mom-and-pop thing. It’s a lot more realistic than the average Joe having to configure and manage things, but still will kill monopolies and associated fuckery dead. That’s kind of how Lemmy instances work, although I only know for sure my own is on a private box.
It’s a bit harder for heavy things like streaming, though.
Indeed, I think the entire idea that needs focus is distributing away from a handful of large corps, although I don’t see streaming going in that direction largely due to IP rights for content, not necessarily bandwidth and resources. Many streaming platforms as I understand already have their content distributed through CDNs that are geographically dispersed as to ease network load, though they retain control over that hardware. I’m proposing providing more options for your average joe website than on something controlled by the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.
