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That is, until the ease, quality and utility of fully decentralized systems exceeds the pain of the fragility and abusiveness of the current centralized offerings. The power of unenclosable carriers offered by breakthroughs such as Holochain https://holo.host is breathtaking.
And yet our economic and social systems have never been more decentralised...
(It is true that there are limits on what people will remember.)
And yet our economic and social systems have never been more decentralised...
Meta and Visa suddenly go permanently offline. What does the social and economic landscape look like now?
Tim Wu makes a similar argument in The Master Switch, a history of information networks and monopolies going back to telegraph networks in the 19th century.
That is, until the ease, quality and utility of fully decentralized systems exceeds the pain of the fragility and abusiveness of the current centralized offerings. The power of unenclosable carriers offered by breakthroughs such as Holochain https://holo.host is breathtaking.
You aren’t addressing the points the article made about efficiency and other selection pressures.
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Meta and Visa suddenly go permanently offline. What does the social and economic landscape look like now?
I go to the bank and get cash. Businesses accept that cash for goods and services. I observe no difference in my social media habits because I do not use Meta products.
I like looking at it from a perspective of privacy, ownership/sovereignty, and choice.
A system that has a few dominant centralized players that are interchangeable is decentralized as far as I'm concerned. An example would be static web hosting. A system with hosted centralized options but where I can also self-host is also decentralized. An example would be something like GitLab.
I want systems where I own and control my own data and where it's not being data mined without my approval. I want systems where someone isn't always looking over my shoulder. I want systems that treat me as the customer not the product.
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Meta and Visa suddenly go permanently offline. What does the social and economic landscape look like now?
I go to the bank and get cash. Businesses accept that cash for goods and services. I observe no difference in my social media habits because I do not use Meta products.