I hate it here

It is raining so hard I can hear it over my music and the rumble of the bus. It is raining in the book I am reading. Completely unconnected events, but humans have this thing for making patterns where they don't exist.

In this book over centralisation leads to a complete media blackout. Decentralisation is a core ethical tenant , of course I enjoy the collapse of the media in the story.

But what can you do about centralisation?

Until the singularity you are going to be stuck as a centralised human being. I know it sucks, but one day we will be able to move past this.

The indieweb movement has great advice for getting started . The biggest single step you can take to decentralise yourself on the internet is to have another machine to represent you.

Once you have a VPS running somewhere in the internet, you have access to an constantly running, near permanent version of yourself.

Reading: Little Brother, Transmetropolitan