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Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic (www.techspot.com)
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[–] -5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

TCP/IP is dead. Good riddance honestly. We need a decentralized protocol to take its place.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The Internet protocol suite (TCP/UDP/IP) is literally a protocol to connect isolated networks hence inter networking. It's foundationally decentralized. You might be able to argue DNS is centralized but nameservers are abundant and you can even choose. Throwing out the Internet because some shit heads are scrapping it with bots is ridiculous and I hope you were just being sarcastic. This problem should be addressed at the legislature level instead of the protocol level.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    The IANA controls IP address allocation, so in that way, IP is centralized. And yes, as you mentioned, DNS is also centralized, and so is SSL/TLS. Having multiple options doesn't make something decentralized, it just means there are multiple centers.

    And while I don't like how much control centralized organizations and corporations have over the supposedly decentralized Internet, we certainly shouldn't throw it out until we have something ready to replace it, and even then, it would have to be a gradual shift.

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