Centralised is colonial.
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@aral
I'd say it's the other way around. Colonial is characterized by many small and new colonies spread out over large distances. Describes decentralized more than centralized.
@freemo @aral Colonialism is about centralised ownership, governance, and control. It's not about the geographical topology of the nodes but the network topology they're connected by. You can have the exact same geographical topology and have the network that connects those nodes be either centralised or decentralised. Centralised topologies imply centralised ownership, governance, and control. In other words, they are colonial.
@aral
While that's certainly a valid definition, even if we accept that definition I wouldn't say it describes centralized systems since there are no colonies, just a single uniform system. A better analogy might be libertarianism vs dictatorship.
@hypolite @aral I disagree, that is not an accurate description of the meaning of colonialism.
Of course a few extremist have tried to twist the definition and have used it that way. But I dont think such people are really worth taking seriously usually (not saying this applies to you, I don't know you).
