Centralization is a single cause of failure. It was clear yesterday when Facebook's entire operations, including its subsidiary sites Instagram and Whatsapp up to the physical facility, were down for five hours.
The technical glitch, resulting from a routing problem in the insular layers that comprise the web, was an opportunity to reflect on how interconnected the internet is in "nearly every facet of existence," New York Times reporter Raymond Zhong wrote. There were interruptions to newsmakers, retailers' medical facilities, and even religions worldwide.
The crypto-savvy influencers used the occasion to take shots at the social media giant that is centralized. This outage strengthens the argument for decentralized alternatives that could provide more security or allow users to control their data and transfer it to another platform at any time they'd like.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://anynft.in/2022/01/25/web3-is-where-the-young-people-are-colonizing/
