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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by cJ0th on Saturday November 07, 2015 @09:41AM (#10524886)
> However, without mass adoption, it seems very unlikely that an alternative internet would emerge before the increasingly-likely collapse of the open internet.

I am not sure what you mean by mass adoption. Sure, there has to be a critical mass for it to work. But I don't think that everyone and their dog should use it.

Part of what made "the good old days" of the web so awesome was that you needed to put in some hours to actually use it. Thanks to this, it wasn't that interesting for people who didn't want to contribute (somewhat) meaningfully.

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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by doctorshady on Saturday November 07, 2015 @04:00PM (#10526206)
It doesn't necessarily apply to IPFS, but the increasing amount of "mobile only" users significantly limits what sort of input people can provide.
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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by undefined0 on Saturday November 07, 2015 @04:31PM (#10526315)
You should tell Kimble that message, he's currently determined to launch MegaNet using mobiles to store data when they're idle in a p2p network.
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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by doctorshady on Saturday November 07, 2015 @07:07PM (#10526775)
Right, and it's not a bad use of mobile devices, but my point is users can't introduce anywhere near as much input. If everyone were to go in that direction, written word - not to mention programming would take a huge blow.
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