Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by staltz on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:24AM (#15585179)

Many thanks! I share your thoughts that tech is "heroin", in fact I've been thinking that UX is killing us, it has become so good, that it's addicting. This is true clinically too, as social media instant gratification releases Dopamine and its usage is an activity comparable to gambling.

There is a way forward, though. Between the Old Web and GOOG-FB-AMZN's Trinet, we can build something else: the New Web based on decentralized protocols like IPFS, Dat, blockchains, secure-scuttlebutt, and others. That's what I'm working on.

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by dleslie on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:13AM (#15585548)

A not-insignificant portion of HN is employed by the three you've accused of killing the web, and with a somewhat convincing argument. It must be a tough pill to swallow when hearing that the employer you love is killing the platform that has defined your adult life.

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by salmonfamine on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:03AM (#15585460)

I have seen articles and repos for various technologies that claim to be the new "decentralized" web, but so far I haven't seen anything that provides a cohesive experience. Could you provide more information as to what you're working on in particular?

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by dredmorbius on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:18AM (#15610100)

I'd twigged on "the dopamine meme" by April 2014, you're right about that.

What creates decentralisation is distance and transport costs, not (merely0 prottocols, and definitely not efficiences: they are inherently centralising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/240xss/the_dop...

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by sordidasset on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:03PM (#15587358)

But if, as you predict, ISPs/infrastructure only support GOOG, FB, and AMZN packets, what good will alternative protocols be? Seems like there will be no opportunity for new information-innovations like Bitcoin.

Seems like the solution is to begin treating infrastructure as a public utility, but I can hardly imagine that actually happening.

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by kowdermeister on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:41AM (#15585836)

UX is killing us

Like guns kill people, right?

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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform... by knowaveragejoe on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:13PM (#15586158)

Guns do kill people, but it's obviously less extreme than that. Killing us in a long term way by encouraging sedentary behavior, for example.

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