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I would argue that the web is part of reality - it's our main method of communication. It might be small but I think it's a good example of successful self-organisation away from government/business/finance.
It's definitely not small, and backbones and intercontinental cables and such are not self-organization.
Late 90-s and early 00-s web, however were such an example. But they still relied on benevolence of ICQ and AIM owners, OS vendors, organizations making standards.
Sorry, I was referring the Fediverse while you were referring to the internet as a whole. Limitations of written communication and all that!
OK, then fediverse still relies on PKI.
Was ist PKI?
Public key infrastructure, but specifically - the current centralized system with root certificates which everyone trusts, that the Web uses.