Re:How Discord Won
by ve55 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:24AM
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I often have similar thoughts to this - there's very few areas where decentralized software has had a better UX than centralized alternatives, and that is why they haven't had as much success.
I think compromises can be made, and in practice, perhaps have to be, in order to attain a large user base (large enough for common network effects, too). I don't want the minimum requirements of all software to be perfect decentralization, censorship-resistance, 10 different client implementations in Rust, and so on. Just, better than what we have. Nonprofit companies could do a good job of it imo, similar to how we see Wikipedia and the Internet Archive as such forces of good that will not become corrupted by ads, selling data, and the likes.
I think compromises can be made, and in practice, perhaps have to be, in order to attain a large user base (large enough for common network effects, too). I don't want the minimum requirements of all software to be perfect decentralization, censorship-resistance, 10 different client implementations in Rust, and so on. Just, better than what we have. Nonprofit companies could do a good job of it imo, similar to how we see Wikipedia and the Internet Archive as such forces of good that will not become corrupted by ads, selling data, and the likes.