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I don't think it's accurate to consider the internet decentralized. Consider the entire domain name system is under ICANN control with a couple dozen root servers. Or the backbone which is almost entirely owned by Level3, Cogent, and a few other regional carriers.

Redundant is nice, but it's not decentralized.

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Did you mean redundant (not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous) or resilient (able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions)?

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redundant - /Engineering/ (of a component) not strictly necessary to functioning but included in case of failure in another component.

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