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> Despite what people say, the internet is not decentralized.

Do people say this? I’ve never heard anyone outside of web3 land say this.

IIRC it’s one of the big disappointments of the internet that is evolved in such a centralized way.

But also you can deploy a website which doesn’t rely on ICANN or a hosting provider, lets encrypt, email, or any of that.

Your only “king” would be an ISP (which you could also run yourself, if you were so inclined)

It wouldn’t be an easily accessible castle, but it’d be yours.

>>dartos+(OP)
You still need an IP address. You can build your own network on top of point-to-point layer-2 connections, which have no central authority, but it won't be reachable from the Internet.

BTW: anyone interested in this should join DN42, which is an alternative central authority, and does more-or-less this. Although 99.9% of DN42 links are internet VPNs because that's cheaper, physical links are also accepted because they're cooler.

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>>immibi+Gq
I’m not an expert (or all that knowledge, honestly) in ISP level stuff. I just know it can be done.

If you ran your own ISP and purchased wholesale bandwidth, would that not just include an ipv6, at least?

>>dartos+QO
You can get an IPv6 range from your ISP, or directly from the central authority in your region. (IPv4s are too scarce to get a range, so you'll only want to have one and that will have to be part of your ISP's range because you can't advertise just one.)

Purchasing wholesale internet bandwidth is another way of saying purchasing internet service (a lot of it). The company that sells you that is your ISP.