Re:Why decentralized social networking never makes it
by silur on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:46AM
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"Why would you eat an orange when you could drink a coffee instead?"
Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centralization the network itself can't reach a certain limit.
But this is a double-edged sword, this is only true to the whole system's perspective and it's completely different on the node (user) level graph-theoritically.
Also, the article forces certain needs on the users. There are lots of us who DON'T want to magically find anyone or be found magically with a keyword, nor interested in "trends" - this is heavily misleading for we still don't have proper metrics for it and won't have one for a while because the problem implies building fault-tolerant reputation networks (that are decentralized by the way)
Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centralization the network itself can't reach a certain limit. But this is a double-edged sword, this is only true to the whole system's perspective and it's completely different on the node (user) level graph-theoritically. Also, the article forces certain needs on the users. There are lots of us who DON'T want to magically find anyone or be found magically with a keyword, nor interested in "trends" - this is heavily misleading for we still don't have proper metrics for it and won't have one for a while because the problem implies building fault-tolerant reputation networks (that are decentralized by the way)