Architectural determinism: how web2 primitives encode centralization

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I believe that the architecture of the modern web not only makes meaningful decentralization difficult but that it also structurally precludes it. As a consequence, seemingly "decentralized" systems built on top of modern web architecture inevitably collapse toward centralized intermediaries.

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