Jake Moore, a spokesman for internet security and antivirus company ESET, told MailOnline: 'Centralising their data has been one of the biggest issues for Meta combining all three giants - Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. 'The solution is to decentralise apps like Facebook and WhatsApp, just as the web and email and internet itself has no central points of control or failure - so there's simply no single company or infrastructure which can have an outage which impacts the whole system,' he said. He's called for systems to have multiple nodes so that a single failure doesn't stop a service from working. Internet scientist Professor Bill Buchanan also believes the internet has become too centralised. 'Consumers end up unwittingly obliged to put all their eggs in one basket, and when inevitably some failure mode occurs for that company or its infrastructure (be it accidental or malicious) the end result is catastrophic.' 'The spate of recent outages is an inevitable side-effect of massive centralisation, where companies like Facebook have ended up on the critical path of providing infrastructure for billions of people,' Mr Hodgson told MailOnline.

It means there is a single point of failure which can affect Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, rather than just one of the platforms. Matthew Hodgson, co-founder and CEO of Element and technical co-founder of Matrix, said Meta's centralised back-end system was a key problem.

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