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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by xani_ on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:41AM (#33152808)
It's also massively hard to get right. Preventing or punishing bad actors is way easier in centralized systems
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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by synu on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:38PM (#33153507)
Centralised systems seem to trend towards something like a protection racket.
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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by some_random on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:55AM (#33153004)
Not to mention that in centralized systems there's an ultimate authority who's willing to sacrifice a little of their profit as a cost of doing business in order to make sure that real customers that were scammed or had an issue of some kind have a good experience.
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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by itintheory on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:51PM (#33153681)
And yet even with an essentially centralized service like Zelle, the system is rife with abuse: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/report-big-u-s-banks-are...
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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:29PM (#33153385)
... except when the bad actors are the central authority.
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