Graceful degradation is where a product degrades in such a way as to maintain at least some functionality for as long as possible. - eviltoast
  • RandomPancake@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Internet was originally designed to fail gracefully. As routes and servers fail, the Internet was designed to work without them (to a point). Sadly the proliferation of giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft has put most of the Internet in the hands of a few companies.

    You can technically use the Internet with every Google service blocked and all AWS / Microsoft IP ranges null routed, but it’s going to be very different and most major sites simply will not work.