April 9, 2026
Why the cloud broke the web - and how nodes fix it
Centralized infrastructure made the internet faster and more fragile. We unpack the economic and technical forces that brought us here.
The cloud was supposed to democratize the web. Instead, it concentrated it.
Three providers now host the majority of the internet. When one goes down, half the web disappears with it. When prices rise, every app maker pays.
Distributed nodes flip the model: the people who use the network also own it. This post unpacks the economics, the technical shift, and what it takes to rebuild from the edges.