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Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing by shadowgovt on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:44AM (#21922358)
I honestly don't think the decentralization is going to succeed. Most users prefer the benefits of centralization and aren't concerned with the drawbacks.

Replacing the occasional collapse of a big central service with the low-grade noise of a distributed service run by a thousand unrelated sysadmins isn't going to be improved UX for most users, so most users won't sign up.

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Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:11PM (#21922571)
E-mail and Usenet (or even Fidonet, for that matter) were a vast UX improvement over Compuserve. Today's monopolized walled gardens are more like that Compuserve of old than a truly open ecosystem.
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Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing by shadowgovt on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:21PM (#21922656)
But I believe th UX of the modern monetized wallef garden would also have displaced CompuServe. Maybe CompuServe is a bad example because their UX was just poor (and they survived in an era of near zero competition).
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