Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization
by tenebrisalietum on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:44PM
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> public forum websites
Bringing together the entire world in one public space is Twitter and Facebook -- i.e. possibly not a good thing.
It's recentralization.
Users of a decentralized protocol may use one or more decentralized networks but there's no need for a given specific decentralized network to be accessible by everyone.
This does require effort on the part of the user, but that might be a good thing. Handing things to users on a silver platter without effort on their part leads to ad-economy driven manipulation, etc.
Bringing together the entire world in one public space is Twitter and Facebook -- i.e. possibly not a good thing.
It's recentralization.
Users of a decentralized protocol may use one or more decentralized networks but there's no need for a given specific decentralized network to be accessible by everyone.
This does require effort on the part of the user, but that might be a good thing. Handing things to users on a silver platter without effort on their part leads to ad-economy driven manipulation, etc.