Interesting, thank you so much for that. Still so much to learn. However, I believe my argument still stands.

First, let's not throw the term 'decentralized' around so loosely, and apply it to anything and everything having a semblance of distribution. Decentralization is a loaded term, multifaceted and multidisciplinary, and it should NOT be conflated with distribution or high availability.

Permissionless blockchain networks can be considered to be decentralized. DAGs can be considered to be decentralized. Tangle-powered M2M networks can be considered to be decentralized. P2P mesh networking (as I described in my article) can be considered to be decentralized. Fastly's hub and spoke network? Not at all. Distributed (for high availability), yes, but never decentralized.

Decentralization did not fail on June 8th, it was the centralization of power in Fastly that failed. Sure, data was distributed across numerous servers around the world, but the master key was still Fastly's to bear.

The point of Fastly's supposed 'decentralized' (more accurately, distributed) server was merely to introduce more redundancies into the system, to ensure that if a server in one country failed, for EG, another one could back it up. It serves a very practical and technical purpose. If Fastly wanted to shut all these servers down though, they still could. This ostensible 'decentralization' does not protect against this central authority and its whims and fantasies at all. It won't even protect against an error in the main hub server (as was what happened on June 8th). Because of a configuration error in the hub, ALL the distributed POPs were still very much affected.

If this was a hub and spoke model, Fastly was still the hub that had absolute authority and control over these distributed servers.

Therefore, there is no irony in my argument at all. I am arguing against such a centralization of power; that such a hub should not exist, because no matter how distributed data can be, a central entity like Fastly with a master key could still access, and have control over, all that.

I am talking about a true decentralization and diffusion of power and control here. A lack of that caused the outage on June 8th.