Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar...
by odorousrex on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:52PM
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E-mail has been going pretty strong for 20+ years now and it is still very decentralized (Even with big players like Gmail in the game).
Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar...
by posterboy on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:03PM
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There are two or three hubs between Europe and America,
terminating the big under sea cables and a few internet backbones. It's not as if you had point connections to every IP. Rather, you go through one single IP to your provider in the general case. Somehow "decentral" lacks a proper graph theoretic definition.
By the way, the sun is decentralized, its center of gravity does not coincide with the galaxy's center of gravity!
Good comment anyway. I didn't even think of e-mail.
There isn't a single lasting mass consumer adoption example of decentralized anything in the modern history of technology (eg post WW2). That's due to a rigid reason: human nature. It's not going to change.
The only thing that will change here, is privacy laws will force behavior changes on centralized platforms.
I can name dozens of massive technology & platform adoptions by consumers, every single one of them is centralized. Now, name the dozens of vast decentralized examples... crickets.
Decentralized as a mass consumer adoption thing will perpetually be fantasy. Only (some) tech people want it.